Meanwhile, the driver of the Tesla car that crashed into a tractor-trailer had the vehicle on autopilot and was watching a “Harry Potter” video, Paul Weekley, a Tampa lawyer for the truck driver, said on Friday. A digital video disc player was found in the Tesla car that was on autopilot when it crashed and killed the driver in Florida in May, Florida Highway Patrol officials said on Friday. Weekley said his investigators spoke with a witness who said that the DVD player was still playing a “Harry Potter” movie after the crash. “There was a portable DVD player in the vehicle,” said Sergeant Kim Montes of the Florida Highway Patrol in a telephone interview. The truck driver, Frank Baressi, 62, of Palm Harbor near St. Petersburg, said the impact of the Model S “lifted the trailer up and jolted the heck out of it when he went under it.

Source: National Post July 01, 2016 18:00 UTC