Police have opened an investigation as to why a Tesla killed a woman.

At 9:01 p.m., the CHP was informed that a pedestrian was struck by a white Tesla model X in middle lanes. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

The initial radio report indicated a white female adult without a shirt and in camouflage shorts had attempted to run across lanes, and then back to the right shoulder.

8:55 PM 3 [8] PER DUP – WFA NO SHIRT, CAMO SHORTS // ATT TO RUN ACROSS LNS, THEN BACK TO RS

Seven minutes later, the radio report said a car crashed into the pedestrian.

9:02 PM 25 [65] C86-504 PED HAS BEEN HIT

The damage indicates the Tesla driver was not paying attention and hit the pedestrian at full speed.

This may not seem obvious, but Tesla has a unique problem seeing pedestrians let alone any living things in the road.

Why do these Tesla fail to see any deer, let alone pedestrians?

Bad engineering.

The first pedestrian fatality by a Tesla was 2018, at the same time as Uber. In response, Uber shut down their entire driverless program and their driver was in high profile court. Tesla by comparison paid their lawyers to bury the case in bureaucracy. They then introduced a $10,000 upsell to customers, claiming a completely driverless car (collision avoidance) would come in the next year. Six years later they’re still killing pedestrians like nothing has changed.

The regulator wording is precise, yet necessarily open to investigation results.

Tesla “driverless” claims are apparently impossible, so the NHTSA has opened a formal case regarding hardware defects (from 2016 to today) too severe to ignore.

The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has identified four Standing General Order (SGO) reports in which a Tesla vehicle experienced a crash after entering an area of reduced roadway visibility conditions with FSD -Beta or FSD -Supervised (collectively, FSD) engaged. In these crashes, the reduced roadway visibility arose from conditions such as sun glare, fog, or airborne dust. In one of the crashes, the Tesla vehicle fatally struck a pedestrian. One additional crash in these conditions involved a reported injury. The four SGO crash reports are listed at the end of this summary by SGO number.

ODI has opened a Preliminary Evaluation of FSD (a system labeled by Tesla as a partial driving automation system),which is optionally available in the Model Year (MY) 2016-2024 Models S and X, 2017-2024 Model 3, 2020-2024 Model Y, and 2023-2024 Cybertruck.

In other words, Tesla has claimed it can see the road when it can’t see the road.

The infamous cost-cutting “camera” marketing stunts of Elon Musk have done exactly what was expected by safety experts; failed to deliver.

Reuters puts it far too mildly:

Tesla’s “camera-only” approach to partially and fully autonomous driving systems, some industry experts have said, could cause issues in low-visibility conditions as the vehicles do not have a set of back-up sensors.

Some industry experts? What kind of industry expert didn’t think Tesla FSD would fail to become safe? It’s fraud, and only a matter of time before the hidden causes of mass suffering are exposed.

I guess Reuters also could say some analysts on Wall Street really believed Bernie Madoff investments could have worked out. The fact anyone believes Musk or Madoff is the problem.

There’s no driverless that requires the driver always to be the eyes and ears. And we see an official investigation now proving that Tesla will never achieve eyes.

Right Mobileye? The undisputed world leader in driverless technology quietly warned industry experts in 2016 when Tesla split off in an “ethics” dispute.

There’s no Tesla without fraud.

Police in Los Angeles say the Tesla drove into oncoming traffic.

Authorities said as Bahner’s Avalon traveled west in the eastbound lanes of Foothill Boulevard, Morrison’s Tesla traveled east, and as Morrison approached the intersection of Haven Avenue, his vehicle crashed head-on into Bahner’s vehicle. Bahner was pronounced dead at the scene and Morrison was transported to a hospital with minor injuries.

A Guinness record is being issued for the least safe car design in history.

The Villager was backing her 2024 Tesla into her garage in the Village of Fernandina at about 2 p.m. Tuesday when she gauged it was too far back and decided to pull it forward, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. When she placed her foot on the accelerator, the electric vehicle rapidly powered forward and kept going until it crashed into a home in the 1400 block of Alesio Street. […] The new Teslas brag a powerful 510 horsepower engine, up from 455 horsepower. It has been reported that the new Teslas can [crash] in just 2.9 seconds.

At least, in this case, the driver walked away. Far too many news stories are about a dead new Tesla owner.