This reads to me like it could be another case of Tesla rapid unintended acceleration bugs behind the “veered” crash symptoms. Maybe the driver was asleep when the software decided to terminate him at high speed?

The man was driving alone in a Tesla eastbound on 128th Street East in excess of 100 mph shortly before 11 p.m. when he passed a deputy traveling the other direction, Pierce County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Carly Cappetto told The News Tribune. The deputy pulled a U-turn and activated their emergency lights in the area of the street’s intersection with Woodland Avenue East but terminated the pursuit as the Tesla sped out of sight. “It was too high speeds,” Cappetto said. The Tesla crashed off the road within a half-mile away from where the deputy spotted it. The vehicle hit a fence and struck three large trees and was on fire, according to Cappetto. The deputy broke the driver-side window in an effort to rescue the victim, who was described as “very large,” but could not pull him out before flames engulfed the vehicle, Cappetto said.

Imagine going to bed at night in America knowing… at any minute a Tesla algorithm “error” could send one of their loitering road robots at over 100mph crashing into your house to explode in a fire so rapid and intense it requires more water itself than a huge building to extinguish.