The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X that occurred last Friday morning in Mountain View, California. The agency is looking into whether Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature had anything to do with the crash and is investigating a fire that resulted from the car’s battery system. The severity of the accident is unprecedented, according to Tesla. “We have never seen this level of damage to a Model X in any other crash,” the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
The driver of the car, Wei Huang, was headed southbound on California’s Route 101 when his Model X crashed headfirst into the safety barrier section of a divider that separates the carpool lane from the off-ramp...
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