Tesla CEO Elon Musk disputed a Washington Post report that claimed a 2022 fatal crash involving a Tesla employee may have been the first involving the Full Self-Driving software. Musk stated the employee, Hans von Ohain, "was not on FSD" and that the "software had unfortunately never been downloaded." Ohain and a passenger were involved in a crash in May 2022 when the Tesla Model 3 they were in crashed into a tree and burst into flames.
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00:02 Tesla CEO Elon Musk disputed a Washington Post report that claimed a 2022 fatal crash
00:07 involving a Tesla employee may have been the first involving the full self-driving software.
00:13 Musk stated the employee was not on FSD and that the software had unfortunately never been
00:18 downloaded. O'Hane and a passenger were involved in a crash in May 20 of 22 when the Tesla Model
00:23 3 they were in crashed into a tree and burst into flames. While the passenger initially said an
00:28 auto-drive feature was used, evidence indicated autopilot was not engaged. Both occupants had
00:33 been drinking alcohol above the legal limit before the crash. Musk stated the crash probably would not
00:38 have happened if FSD had been engaged. For all things money visit Benzinga.com