The crashes caused one death — a Tesla passenger — and 15 injuries.
• Collision warnings were activated in the majority of incidents immediately before impact, and Automatic Emergency Braking intervened in about half of them.• Where incident video was available, it indicated the emergency scene would have been visible to the driver an average of 8 seconds before impact.
• Data for 11 of the collisions indicated that all of the drivers had their hands on the steering wheel and none took evasive action 2 to 5 seconds before impact. The map above shows the approximate locations of the 16 crashes. Minimal information was released on five of them., California, Jan. 22, 2018: A Tesla Model S hit a fire truck parked at an accident scene on Interstate 405. The fire truck, at the left side of the lanes, had CHP vehicles with flashing lights parked behind it and to the right. No injuries were reported., Connecticut, Dec.
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