A photo shows the accident scene after a Tesla Model S crashed into a parked vehicle in Key Largo, Florida, in 2019. The driver of a Tesla car that killed a woman in 2019 testified in federal court on Monday, July 21, 2025, that the company’s Autopilot driver-assistance system failed to warn him of an impending accident or engage the brakes. — Monroe County Sheriff's Department via The New York Times
MIAMI: The driver of a Tesla car that killed a woman in 2019 testified July 21 in federal court that the company’s Autopilot driver-assistance system failed to warn him of an impending accident or engage the brakes.
The driver, George Brian McGee, was driving his new Tesla Model S on a dark, two-lane road in South Florida when his phone fell to the floor and he bent to find it. That’s when he failed to see that the road was ending in a T-intersection and that an SUV was parked on the other side, with two people standing next to that car.
