A Tesla Model S owner died in May when his car’s autopilot failed to spot a tractor trailer turning left across the... The day before the chief executives of BMW AG, Intel Corp. and Israeli software specialist Mobileye N.V. were due to take the stage to launch an autonomous driving project, U.S. authorities reported the world’s first fatal crash involving autonomous driving technology. It wasn’t the ideal build up—or was it?

Source: Wall Street Journal July 04, 2016 08:26 UTC