Article 1K0JF Tesla driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter, witness says

Tesla driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter, witness says

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Sam Levin and Nicky Woolf in San Francisco
from Technology | The Guardian on (#1K0JF)

Driver in first known fatal self-driving car crash was also driving so fast that 'he went so fast through my trailer I didn't see him', the truck driver involved said

The Tesla driver killed in the first known fatal crash involving a self-driving car may have been watching a Harry Potter movie at the time of the collision in Florida, according to a truck driver involved in the crash.

The truck driver, Frank Baressi, 62, told the Associated Press that the Tesla driver Joshua Brown, 40, was "playing Harry Potter on the TV screen" during the collision and was driving so fast that "he went so fast through my trailer I didn't see him".

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