Regulators Open Investigation Into Fatal Crash in Tesla on Autopilot

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Tesla enabled their autopilot features via a firmware update a few months ago, maybe a year. While it hasn't been without its faults, it has been largely successful. They said this was the first fatality in a Tesla using the autopilot feature, but as recently as a few months ago, they reported that there hadn't been a fatality in a Tesla yet. So this may be a first on several levels.

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss