New Details About Fatal Tesla Crash Emerge

[Onkel Neal]

http://gas2.org/2016/07/02/new-detai...-crash-emerge/

A woman driving on the same highway and in the same direction as Brown claims she was driving 85 mph when Brown’s Model S flew by her at a high rate of speed. That information is not included in the official traffic accident report filed by the Florida State Police, but is surely something known to Tesla, as it has access to all of the data stored in the car’s computer system. It is included in a story at Teslarati.

The driver of the tractor trailer, Frank Baressi, age 62, told the Dallas Morning News in a telephone interview that the Tesla driver was “playing Harry Potter on the TV screen.” He added, “It was still playing when he died.” Baressi said “he went so fast through my trailer I didn’t see him.” He didn’t see the video playing, but claims he could hear the sound track still playing when the Tesla finally came to a stop several hundred yards up the road. Tesla Motors says it is not possible to watch videos on the Model S touch screen

Did I miss something, wth is "autopilot" and why is it legal in a passenger car?