[LINK] U.S. opens investigation into Tesla after fatal crash in Autopilot mode

[David Boxall]

On 1/07/2016 12:23 PM, Jim Birch wrote:
> Tesla said this is the first fatality in 130 million miles of autopilot, ...

<http://www.iflscience.com/technology/second-tesla-crash-raises-unnecessary-questions-about-selfdriving-cars/>
> Brown’s crash, for example, is the first fatality in 210 million kilometers (130 million miles) driven on Tesla’s autopilot mode. The average for human drivers in the US is 160 million kilometers (100 million miles).

A bit of background:
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/01/business/inside-tesla-accident.html>
The Tesla going under a semi that turned in front of it would have been 
messy, to say the least.

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