Yesterday I was contacted to speak to a news outlet about the Tesla Model S crash that happened during Autopilot. In a typical news reality, they needed to speak to me instantly, and I wasn’t available, so it didn’t materialize. But the process got me thinking about this first fatality and the biggest problem with autonomous cars. As humans, we have trouble being “partially responsible” for anything. If someone (or something) is in charge of the situation, we are rarely re

It only takes two tugs of your finger to become irrelevant. One tug of the Mercedes sourced stalk turns on cruise control. A second tug turns on “AutoPilot”, Tesla’s autonomous driving program. A simple chime tells me I’ve gone from driver to passenger. We’re in the Model X, Tesla Motors second all-original model and their long awaited seven seat SUV. This model has been teased for years and remains un-driven by most of our car-journalist peers. To get some time in this

The Tesla Model S has become a car so hyped and discussed that even non-car people want to know more. It quickly rose to the top of our "To-Drive" list, and we finally had the chance to spend two great shoot days with a fully loaded P85+. The strangest thing about the Tesla Model S was completely unexpected. After driving the top-of-the line P85+ model from one of our shoot locations to our lunch stop, I toggled the small gear stalk into Park. Then I became confused and a bit