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Drunk driver nabbed asleep at the wheel with his Tesla’s autopilot engaged
23 May 2019 - 05:06
Fully autonomous cars are still some time away, but that hasn’t stopped some drunk drivers from treating their partially self-driving cars as designated drivers. Netherlands police last week nabbed a Tesla driving closely behind a slow-moving truck on a mostly empty freeway. When they pulled alongside it, they saw that the driver was asleep at the wheel while the car was being driven by its autopilot system. The police woke the driver using their sirens, and found he was drunk.
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