A North Carolina doctor who operated Tesla on Autopilot was hit by a police car early Wednesday morning when he saw a movie on his cell phone.
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The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said the Model S sedan driven by Devainder Goli crashed into a Nash County Sheriff’s Office vehicle that was stopped to help a Highway Patrol troop that responded to an accident on U.S. 64 about 13 miles outside Nashville, NC
Both Tesla’s patrol car and Dodge Charger were severely damaged and the Charger crashed into the troop’s car, which knocked both him and the deputy to the ground, but no one was seriously injured in the incident, CBS 17 reported. Raleigh.
Tesla’s Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” systems have the ability to steer a car within a lane and avoid obstacles, but require the driver to show that they are alert by touching the steering wheel.
In March, a Tesla owner in Cabarrus County, NC, wrote the feature by preventing another car from driving the wrong way through a freeway toward him.
Abuse of the feature has been linked to several fatal accidents, and the National Transportation Safety Board has criticized both its design and the federal regulations regarding such systems.
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“It shows that automation will never take the place of the auto audience that pays attention, does not text, is not on the phone, but concentrates on what you did, that is, drive,” Sheriff Nith County told Keith Stone CBS 17.
Goli was accused of violating the state’s “Move Over” law, which requires drivers to provide space for emergency vehicles, and rules regarding the location of a television in a car.
