CA Tesla FSD Crashes Highway Speed Through Flares Into Parked CHP

A Tesla operating in Full Self-Driving mode struck a parked California Highway Patrol vehicle on Interstate 80 eastbound west of Air Base Parkway on Oct. 13, seriously injuring two officers, according to CHP. The 22-year-old Sacramento driver told authorities he was asleep at the time of the crash, which occurred despite lanes being closed with flares and cones and several emergency vehicles present with lights flashing. The incident echoes the first Tesla "driverless" death in 2016, when a sleeping driver's Tesla crashed at high speed into a service vehicle with flashing safety lights.

Elon Musk has said since 2016 his cars can drive themselves, despite two deaths in that year alone. Notably the first Tesla “driverless” death in 2016 was a young man sleeping at the wheel while Tesla AI crashed him at high speed into the back of a high-visibility service vehicle with flashing safety lights. Customers of Musk, almost eleven years later https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/sleeping-tesla-driver-crashes-into-chp-solano-vehicle-seriously-injuring-2-officers/ , are still following his advice to fall asleep at the wheel: CHP said the incident happened Oct. 13 as the officers were investigating a fatal crash on Interstate 80 eastbound, west of Air Base Parkway. The Tesla, driven by a 22-year-old Sacramento man, was traveling at freeway speeds when it entered the closed lanes and hit the patrol vehicle, which was occupied by the two officers, CHP said. … Authorities confirmed that the crash occurred even though “the lanes were closed with flares and cones, and several emergency vehicles were at the scene with emergency lights flashing.” … CHP said, “The driver claimed he was asleep and that the vehicle was operating in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode at the time of the crash.”