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Inside a Fatal Tesla Autopilot Accident: ‘It Happened So Fast’



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George Brian McGee, a finance executive in Florida, was driving home in a Tesla Model S operating on Autopilot, a system that can steer, brake and accelerate a car on its own, when he dropped his phone during a call and bent down to look for it.Neither he nor Autopilot noticed that the road was ending and the Model S drove past a stop sign and a flashing red light. The car smashed into a parked Chevrolet Tahoe, killing a 22-year-old college student, Naibel Benavides.One of a growing number of fatal accidents involving Tesla cars operating on Autopilot, …

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