id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-roadandtrack-com-8058 Tesla Model S Involved In Fatal Crash While in Autopilot Mode - NHTSA to Investigate Tesla Autopilot Mode .html text/html 1833 132 73 Fatal Tesla Model S Crash While In Autopilot Triggers NHTSA Investigation UPDATE: The man driving the Tesla Model S that had Autopilot engaged when it hit a tractor-trailer has been officially verified to be Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old former Navy SEAL and technology entrepreneur from Ohio. Details about the crash are starting to come out, and the AP reports that "by the time firefighters arrived, the Tesla wreckage — with its roof sheared off — had come to rest in a yard hundreds of feet from the crash site." For a car to hit a tractor-trailer, lose its roof, and still be able to continue its momentum for hundreds of feet indicates a high rate of speed. Tesla said in a statement today that NHTSA has opened up a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a fatal accident with a Model S and a tractor-trailer. ./cache/www-roadandtrack-com-8058.html ./txt/www-roadandtrack-com-8058.txt