Fatal Tesla Crash Raises New Questions About Autopilot System<br />When the upgrades were released, Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said the new Autopilot system was “really going to be beyond what people expect”<br />and would make the Tesla Model S sedan and the Model X sport utility vehicle the safest cars on the road “by far.”<br />Now, however, Tesla’s semiautonomous driving system is coming under new scrutiny after the company disclosed late on Friday<br />that a fatal crash on March 23 in California occurred while Autopilot was engaged.<br />By NEAL E. BOUDETTEMARCH 31, 2018<br />In the fall of 2016, Tesla beamed new software over the air to cars on the road in the United States and elsewhere<br />that added safeguards to its Autopilot system to prevent drivers from looking away from the road or keeping their hands off the steering wheel for long periods of time.
