There seems to be a notable increase lately in pedestrians killed by Tesla. Is the car getting worse at identifying humans?

A father and son were killed after being struck by a Tesla while refueling their truck on Loop 202 Friday evening, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

DPS spokesperson Bart Graves reported that the incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. on Loop 202, just north of Elliot Road in the Laveen neighborhood of Phoenix.

State Troopers arrived and found two men allegedly struck by a Tesla, whose driver remained on scene.

The men, one in his 70s and the other in his 40s, were pronounced dead at the scene by the Phoenix Fire Department, according to Graves.

It sure isn’t getting better. This is the same Tesla tragedy story that has been reported since at least April 2018.

“I was waving this light like this so they could see it. It’s a bright LED, so I was going like this, and I had the strobe lights and stuff like this, this one blinking and that one blinking like this on top of my van and my brother’s truck had hazard lights on, too,” he said.

The Tesla ignored the law, ignored the hazard signals, ignored the lights.

Notably, Uber was raked over the coals for far less, and shut down their entire driverless program, even sending the driver to court for serious charges after a single death in April 2018.

A tale of two driverless programs?

Somehow Tesla doing worse in safety than the disgraced and cancelled Uber driverless program… means killing more and more pedestrians without any accountability.