Death of Tesla driver tests future of driverless carA Tesla Model S involved in the fatal crash on May 7, 2016. Bubbers has test driven the autopilot system in a Tesla and says "it was a surreal experience." "Tesla admits it's a Beta… sometimes it's not clear what the car is going to do and what the driver is going to do," he tells Finnerty. The so-called "autopilot system" in the Tesla Model S sedan was in use when Joshua D. Brown of Canton, Ohio, was killed May 7 in Williston, Fla. Just one month earlier, Brown had credited the autopilot system for preventing a collision on an interstate. The top third of the car was sheared off by the impact of the collision of the Tesla with a tractor-trailer truck on a nearby highway.

Source: CBC News July 05, 2016 13:01 UTC