Washington state patrol confirmed to NBC that the Tesla driver whole killed a motorcyclist near Seattle in April was running on the car’s self-driving system at the time of the crash. The driver told authorities that he was looking down, distracted by his phone, when “the next thing he knew, there was a bang,” and the Tesla hit the motorcycle, a statement of probable cause said, Marlene Lenthang of NBC reports.
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