Tesla on Autopilot Crashes Into Fire Truck in California

A Tesla Model S crashed into a fire truck while driving down a California highway, according to Culver City firefighters. A tweet by the local firefighter’s union showed a photo of a Tesla Model S with its nose wedged under the back end of a fire truck and its hood badly wrinkled. The car had been traveling on at 65 miles an hour. “The driver reports the vehicle was on Autopilot. Amazingly there were no injuries!” according to the tweet. In its owner’s manual, Tesla repeatedly warns drivers to pay attention to the road while using the semi-autonomous Autopilot system. Tesla classifies Autopilot it as a “driver assistance system” and not “autonomous driving.”