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Next, a crash and a controversy involving electric car maker Tesla. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fatal wreck of a 2019 Tesla model S last Saturday in Texas. Both of its passengers were killed when the car apparently failed to drive around a curve. It went off the road and hit some trees. Police say neither of the people inside was in the driver's seat.
One was sitting in the back and one was in the front passenger seat. One question is whether Tesla's autopilot feature was turned on. The company's CEO Elon Musk says it wasn't based on information gathered so far and that the street the car was driving on didn't have the lane lines needed to turn on standard autopilot.
But if it wasn't turned on, what drove the car at what police called a high rate of speed? Tesla's autopilot feature has been blamed as a factor in several deaths since it was introduced in 2015. The company's website says autopilot does not make its cars autonomous and still requires active driver supervision.
But hours before the accident, Musk had tweeted that autopilot was several times safer than human drivers. Federal investigators are examining the cars operations and the long lasting fire that followed the crash.
