A federal safety agency is sending a 3-member team to investigate a fatal crash involving a Tesla electric car and a semitrailer that is strikingly similar to a 2016 crash involving another vehicle made by the company.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.MIAMI — A federal safety agency is sending a three-member team to investigate a fatal crash involving a Tesla electric car and a semitrailer that is strikingly similar to a 2016 crash involving another vehicle made by the company.that the team would work in cooperation with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, which is probing the Friday morning crash in Delray Beach.
The circumstances of the crash are much like one that occurred in May 2016 on the opposite side of Florida, near Gainesville. Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio, was traveling in a Tesla Model S on a divided highway and using the Autopilot system when he was killed. In January of 2017, NHTSA ended an investigation into the Gainesville-area crash, finding that Tesla's Autopilot system had no safety defects at the time.
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