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.