Data from the car shows he had his foot on the accelerator, pushing its speed to 62 miles per hour, above the posted limit of 45 m.p.h. Pressing the accelerator overrode the cruise control part of Autopilot, which is designed to brake for obstacles or other vehicles. “The evidence clearly shows that this crash had nothing to do with Tesla’s Autopilot technology,” Tesla said in a statement to The New York Times. They are likely to also focus on the car’s automatic emergency braking system, which is supposed to activate even if part of Autopilot is overridden. It shows that the Autopilot system recognized the parked S.U.V., one pedestrian and the end of the roadway.
