NHTSA opens special investigation after Tesla Model 3 on automated driving crashes into Texas home, killing woman
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Lora Kolodny
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a special crash investigation into a Tesla Model 3 that crashed into a Texas home, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila. The driver, Michael Butler, told authorities he was using Tesla's partially automated driving systems at the time of the crash. Tesla CEO Elon Musk went on the defensive about the incident on social media.
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· 3 pulledThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday that it has opened a special crash investigation into a Tesla incident where a Model 3 slammed into a home in Katy, Texas, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila.
Harris County authorities said that the driver, Michael Butler, was cooperating with their investigation on the scene and said that he had been using Tesla's partially automated driving systems when his vehicle barreled out of its lane and into the home in the Houston suburb.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk went on the defensive, saying in a post on his social network X Monday that the cr
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