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Musk on fatal Tesla crash in Texas: 'This makes no sense'
Key takeaways
- Martha Avila, 76, died after a Tesla drove through the front of her home in Katy, Texas, last Friday.
- [T]his makes no sense, Musk wrote in an X post Monday.
- Tesla s vice president of AI software, Ashok Elluswamy, similarly argued that the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area.
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Martha Avila, 76, died after a Tesla drove through the front of her home in Katy, Texas, last Friday. Both police and the driver have indicated that Tesla s automated driving assistance system was in use at the time of the accident, according to a lawsuit filed by Avila s daughter.
[T]his makes no sense, Musk wrote in an X post Monday. FSD [full self-driving] drives slowly through neighborhood streets and this was a high speed crash!
Tesla s vice president of AI software, Ashok Elluswamy, similarly argued that the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area.
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