US board to vote on likely cause of Tesla Autopilot crash


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 22 Aug 2017

The fatal incident raised questions about the safety of systems that can perform driving tasks for long stretches with little or no human intervention.

WASHINGTON: The US National Transportation Safety Board will vote at a Sept 12 hearing on the probable cause of a May 2016 crash that killed a man using the semi-autonomous driving system on his Tesla Model S sedan, the agency said on Monday. 

The fatal incident raised questions about the safety of systems that can perform driving tasks for long stretches with little or no human intervention but which cannot completely replace human drivers.

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