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– Bad luck: colliding with other cars while driving. Worse luck: colliding with other cars that happen to be police cars. Worst of all: do all of the above when watching a movie. North Carolina officials say it was the fate of a Raleigh doctor who turned up in the parked patrol cars of a Nash County Sheriff’s Office early Wednesday and a State Highway Patrol troop along the side of U.S. Highway 64, per. WRAL. Officials say Devainder Goli saw a movie on his cell phone while his Tesla was in “Autopilot” mode when he hit the deputy’s car, which in turn got into’s car. the trooper struck. Both officers, who were on the side of a crash, were then standing outside their cars, which took place just after midnight at Spring Hope, per the Enterprise.
“Fortunately, the state troop pushed our deputy out of the way when he heard the bells ring,” Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone told WRAL. “It could be very awful.” The Tesla website notes that while “Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its orbit,” the features of the technology still “require active driver supervision and do not make the car autonomous.” WXII 12 reports that no one was injured in the incident. Goli was accused of failing to cross in front of an emergency vehicle and watching TV while driving a car. No word on what the movie was about. (Read more weird crime stories.)
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