Sunday, April 6, 2025

Self-driving Tesla kills motorcyclist

Another motorcyclist has lost his life because a driver in a Tesla has relied too much on the brand's self-correcting technology.

No Tesla can control itself. Still, it's something some Tesla owners believe. And it has now cost another motorcyclist his life.

In Seattle in the USA, a 56-year-old Tesla Model S owner hit a motorcyclist from behind. The motorcyclist died from his injuries.

And while Tesla says drivers must keep their hands on the wheel at all times when the 'self-driving features' are on, footage shows the 56-year-old was looking down at his phone when the accident happened.

The Daily Mail writes that.

READ ALSO: Hyundai owner receives compensation after gross complaint about electric car

Although the Tesla owner passed both an alcohol and drug test, it turned out that he had been drinking before getting into the car.

We don't have to go any further than October to find a Tesla executive who would base an upcoming robot taxi on the fully self-driving system. However, the launch of the taxi has since been postponed.

And even if it was actually the driver who broke the rules, the accident still raises a number of questions. Perhaps most important of all is whether Tesla's systems are even ready to guide self-driving taxis around traffic.

Tesla director Elon Musk has also admitted that the presentation of a self-driving taxi has been moved from August to October this year, because it is necessary to make some changes in the system behind the cars.

Conversely, it is not more than a week ago that Musk said that Tesla's cars in the future would be like 'a small, mobile lounge' where the person behind the wheel and the other passengers can watch movies, play games, work, eat and even sleep.

Boosted has previously been able to tell about how Tesla's self-driving features have ended up in the hands of the wrong drivers. Another motorcyclist lost his life when a Tesla Model 3 owner blindly trusted the advanced cruise control, autopilot. Read more about it here .

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