The Apple engineer killed when his Tesla crashed into a California highway barrier had activated the car’s autopilot feature and didn’t have his hands on the wheel in the last six seconds before impact, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
The self-driving technology on the Tesla Model X had been used four times during the 32-minute trip, according to the report released Thursday, including in its last 19 minutes. While the vehicle warned the driver, Walter Huang, to put his hands on the steering wheel three separate times, the last of the visual and auditory alerts came 15 minutes before the March 23 collision.
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