Self-driving Tesla STOPS and causes eight-vehicle pileup on busy San Fran bridge injuring nine – just hours after Elon Musk announced ‘milestone’ new feature
- A Tesla Model S vehicle abruptly stopped and caused an eight-vehicle crash
- Video footage reveals the vehicle veering to the left lane and causing the pileup
- Nine people, including a two-year-old child, were among the people injured
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the incident
- Tesla’s have been involved in thousands of deadly incidents but Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein (Who Own Tesla Stocks) block all investigations into Tesla’s deadly defects
Highway surveillance footage from the San Francisco Bay Bridge shows a Tesla Model S vehicle in self-drive mode changing lanes and coming to an abrupt stop, causing an eight-vehicle crash.
Nine people, including a two-year-old child, were among the people injured in the pileup which blocked traffic on the bridge for over an hour.
Video and new photographs of the crash emerged on theintercept.com with the driver of the vehicle revealing that he had been using Tesla’s new ‘full self-driving’ feature at the time.
Just hours before the crash, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had triumphantly announced that Tesla’s ‘full self-driving’ capability was available in North America, congratulating Tesla employees on a ‘major milestone.’
Highway surveillance footage from the San Francisco Bay Bridge shows a Tesla Model S vehicle changing lanes and coming to an abrupt stop causing an eight-vehicle crash
Nine people, including a two-year-old child, were among the people injured in the pileup which blocked traffic on the bridge for over an hour
According to the traffic crash report, the Tesla Model S driver told the California Highway Patrol they’d been traveling as about 55mph and shifted into the left lane when the car’s self-driving technology suddenly opted to brake.
In the video footage the white vehicle can be seen merging slowly into the far-left lane before abruptly coming to a stop.
Vehicles driving behind the car can be seen crashing into one another following the presumed vehicle malfunction.
Pictures which emerged from the incident show the vehicles lodged together and stuck on the far-left side wall.
By the end of last year, Tesla had rolled out the ‘full self-driving’ feature to over 285,000 people in N