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A TESLA MODEL 3 USING DRIVER ASSISTANCE SMASHED THRU A WALL, KILLING A TEXAS WOMAN IN HER HOME
When it comes to cars, I’m still a little bit old-fashioned. I haven’t yet driven a car that has a driver assistance system. So I definitely haven’t yet tried that feature yet, in any make or model of the many vehicles that has it. I don’t know how well they work, if I’d be constantly terrified, if I’d trust it on the highway or if they were buggy in certain scenarios. Actually, I’m pretty sure I’d be terrified, regardless of possibly reassuring statistics. But when it comes to Tesla, I’m not sure how anyone could trust their system anymore. And with the latest news of the Tesla driver assistance system literally killing a Texas woman, who was standing in her living room, it’s clear that more regulations are needed.
SOMEHOW, THE TESLA WAS GOING FAST ENOUGH TO GO THRU A LITERAL BRICK WALL
The poor woman that a Tesla Model 3 killed was just standing in her living room when the until-now unthinkable happened: she was hit by a car. Even scarier is the fact that the car that killed her smashed through a brick wall before hitting her a split second later. The man in the car, not driving the car, was one Michael Butler, who explained that he was using that to me terrifying Tesla driver assistance system when the car inexplicably left the road and crashed into the home. So far, we don’t know just how fast the car was driving. But it was clearly fast enough to make its way through the brick wall and have enough momentum to hit 76-year-old grandmother Martha Avila, who was later pronounced dead at a local hospital in Katy, Texas.
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HOW WAS THE TESLA GOING SO FAST, AND WAS THE DRIVER AT FAULT FOR BEING NEGLIGENT?
The non-driver of the Tesla Model 3, Michael Butler, was alert and cooperative with Harris County authorities and showed no signs of intoxication. But the investigation is sure to explore some serious questions to find out what happened and how it was possible. So far, we don’t know which Tesla driver assisted system was being used, nor do we know which mode it was in: “autopilot” or “full self-driving.” Both modes are more marketing monikers than they are literal modes, and both still require a human (driver) to be attentive. We also need answers about how the Tesla Model 3 was driving so fast in a residential neighborhood, fast enough to smash through a brick wall and kill a woman standing in her home.
This is where I remind everyone that federal regulators made demands to add safeguards to the Tesla “autopilot” and the company recalled over 2 million cars in 2023. Everything is bigger in Texas, including scary Tesla stories.
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