AutonomousCritical
Tesla on Autopilot Crashed into Trailer Truck in Florida, Killing Driver
- Occurred
- Mar 1, 2019
- Published
- Jan 22, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model 3 driver switched on Autopilot seconds before the crash into the underbelly of a tractor-trailer on a highway in Florida, killing the Tesla driver.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Jeremy Banner
- Jeremy Banner's family
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 100%
Rationale: Fatal crash involving Tesla Autopilot system, a self-driving feature.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8