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By Dan Levine and Hyunjoo Jin

Mar 12 2024 6:10AM

Attentive driving on trial.

Next Autopilot trial to test Tesla's blame-the-driver defence

Six weeks before the first fatal US accident involving Tesla's Autopilot in 2016, the automaker's president Jon McNeill tried it out in a Model X and emailed feedback to automated-driving chief Sterling Anderson, cc’ing Elon Musk. The system performed perfectly, McNeill wrote, with the ...

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