The driver of a Tesla crashed into a Nash County police vehicle last Wednesday while the car was on autopilot, with law enforcement officials saying he was watching a movie at the time.
The collision occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning, just after midnight, on a rural stretch of a highway near the Franklin/Nash County line in North Carolina.
A Highway Patrol trooper had been assisting a Nash County deputy with another crash on the side of the road when the Tesla Model S slammed into the deputy’s cruiser, according to the Highway Patrol.
You can see the damage done in the crash below:
The crash was so forceful it sent the cruiser into the trooper’s vehicle, which subsequently pushed two officers to the ground. ‘Thankfully no one was injured,’ Trooper Jeff Wilson of the Highway
