“It’s very dangerous for motorcycles to be around Teslas”
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot Tesla’s driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported By Faiz Siddiqui and Jeremy B. Merrill June 10, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Washington Post Article (Illustration by Emily Sabens/The Washington Post; KTVU-TV/AP; iStock) SAN FRANCISCO — The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights, a police report said, when Tillman Mitchell, 17, stepped off one afternoon in March. Then a Tesla Model Y approached on North Carolina Highway 561. The car — allegedly in Autopilot mode — never slowed down. It struck Mitchell at 45 mph. The teenager was thrown into the windshield, flew into the air and landed facedown in the road, according to his great-aunt, Dorothy Lynch. Mitchell’s father heard the crash and rushed from his […]
