Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car—driver admits he was watching a movie
The crash threw two officers to the ground, but no one was seriously injured. …
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Police in North Carolina have filed charges against a driver whose Tesla crashed into a police car early Wednesday morning, Raleigh’s CBS 17 television reports. The driver admitted to officers that he had activated the Autopilot technology on his Model S and was watching a movie on his phone at the time of the crash.
“A Nash County deputy and a trooper with the Highway Patrol were on the side of the road while responding to a previous crash when the Tesla slammed into the deputy’s cruiser,” CBS 17 reports. “The impact sent the deputy’s cruiser into the trooper’s vehicle—which pushed the trooper and deputy to the ground.”
Thankfully, no one was seriously injured by the crash.
The driver was charged with a violation of the state’s “move over” law and with having a television in the car.
It’s an important reminder that no car on the market today is fully self-driving. Drivers need to pay attention to the road at all times, regardless of what kind of car they have or what kind of driver-assistance technology their car has.
Tesla could use better driver monitoring technology
In the last year, there have been at least three similar incidents involving Tesla vehicles crashing into police cars. This happened in Arizona in July and in Connecticut and Massachusetts last December.
To be fair, this isn’t just a Tesla problem. Studies have found that driver-assistance systems
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