{"id":119325,"date":"2021-04-19T11:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119325"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:54:25","slug":"us-two-dead-in-tesla-crash-in-texas-that-was-believed-to-be-driverless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119325","title":{"rendered":"US: Two dead in Tesla crash in Texas that was believed to be driverless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/866fad4\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/640x420\/quality\/85\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2F99%2Ff4e8138fc3358112028ea6dad06083%2Ftag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_LYNXMPEH3I033%3A12021-04-19T023757Z_1_LYNXMPEH3I033_RTROPTP_3_TESLA-CRASH-TEXAS.JPG\" alt=\"Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Tesla vehicle is covered in tarp after it crashed in The Woodlands, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HOUSTON, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver&#8217;s seat, crashed into a tree on Saturday night north of Houston, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was no one in the driver\u2019s seat,&#8221; Sergeant Cinthya Umanzor of the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 Tesla Model S was travelling at a high rate of speed, when it failed to negotiate a curve and went off the roadway, crashing into a tree and bursting into flames, local television station KHOU-TV said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the fire was extinguished, authorities located two&nbsp;occupants in the vehicle, with one in the front passenger seat while the other was in the back seat of the Tesla, the report said, citing Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident comes amid growing scrutiny over Tesla&#8217;s semi-automated driving system following recent accidents and as it is preparing to launch its updated &#8220;full self-driving&#8221; software to more customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US&nbsp;auto safety agency said in March it has opened 27 investigations into crashes of Tesla vehicles; at least three of the crashes occurred recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in January that he expects huge profits from its full self-driving software, saying he is &#8220;highly confident the car will be able to drive itself with reliability in excess of human this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The self-driving technology must overcome safety and regulatory hurdles to achieve commercial success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umanzor said the two crash victims were born in 1962 and 1951.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tesla vehicle is covered in tarp after it crashed in The Woodlands, Texas HOUSTON, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver&#8217;s seat, crashed into a tree on Saturday night north of Houston, authorities said. \u201cThere was no one in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}