The driver of a Tesla said he was on autopilot mode and distracted by his cell phone when his vehicle "lurched forward" and hit and killed a motorcyclist.
A Snohomish man has been arrested for vehicular homicide after hitting and killing a motorcyclist while he was on his phone and his Tesla was driving in autopilot mode.
The driver was reportedly heading home from lunch and had the Tesla on autopilot while looking at his phone when the Tesla “lurched forward” into the back of 28-year-old Jeffrey Nissen’s motorcycle, pinning Nissen underneath.