First Recorded Tesla Semi Crash Kills Two People In Nevada

An electrical Tesla Semi motortruck collapsed into 2 vehicles successful Dayton, Nev., complete nan weekend, sidesplitting 2 group and raising questions astir nan truck’s safety features.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office responded to a awesome collision astir 7 a.m. connected Sunday astatine nan intersection of Highway 50 and Traditions Parkway astir 40 miles eastbound of Reno, nan agency said.

The agency confirmed a semi-truck was progressive successful nan accident, and footage of nan segment shows it was a Tesla Semi.

It is nan first known clang involving a Tesla Semi, an electrical Class 8 motortruck that Tesla is building successful Nevada and plans to ramp up accumulation of. As liking successful Tesla’s electrical rider vehicles wanes, nan institution is betting connected nan motortruck to springiness it a needed boost.

The trucks do not person nan Full Self-Driving mode disposable successful Tesla cars, but Tesla’s website says they travel modular “with progressive information features that brace pinch precocious centrifugal and brake controls to present traction and stableness successful each conditions.”

According to nan Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, preliminary statements obtained astatine nan segment propose nan motortruck driver whitethorn person fallen dormant down nan wheel.

The clang is nether investigation by nan Nevada State Police Highway Patrol, which said further accusation whitethorn beryllium released adjacent week.

The Record-Courier identified nan victims arsenic Sergio and Jennifer Villaneuva, a mates who sewage joined successful 2022.

Tesla has not clarified if its semitruck has an automatic emergency braking system. Federal regulators are presently weighing a instruction for emergency braking systems successful vehicles much than 10,000 pounds.