Tag: crash
Tesla driver blames San Francisco Bay Bridge crash on FSD
The operator of a Tesla that reportedly caused an eight-car pileup on the San Francisco Bay Bridge during the Thanksgiving travel rush told police that the car was operating in “Full Self-Driving” mode at the time of the incident, blaming the crash on a malfunction in the software rather than human error, CNN Business reports.
Rivian aces IIHS crash tests, gets Top Safety Pick+ rating
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began testing the Rivian R1T around May of this year, we’re still awaiting its ratings for the electric pickup. Meanwhile, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has completed its crash tests of the R1T, the pickup earning a Top Safety Pick+ rating. Based on the IIHS system, that means
Video shows horrific crash from the POV of a motorcyclist lucky to survive it
A motorcyclist was badly injured and the driver of a stolen SUV was killed in a horrific chain-reaction collision on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu near Los Angeles, when the Lexus SUV careened into a pickup truck, causing the pickup to spin and crash into the rider. The crash was captured in a dramatic
Driver in sheriff’s academy crash says it wasn’t intentional
LOS ANGELES — The driver of an SUV that crashed into Los Angeles County law enforcement recruits on a training run last week said it was not deliberate, a TV news station reported Monday. “I didn’t intentionally do it,” Nicholas Gutierrez, 22, told NBC4LA during an interview with his family. “I wish it never happened.
Driver arrested in crash into L.A. County sheriff’s recruits
LOS ANGELES — Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old driver on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly plowing his vehicle into Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits on a training run, injuring more than two dozen people. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Thursday that Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez was arrested Wednesday for
The world finally has a representative female crash test dummy
In the early 1970s, the gods of crash test dummies at GM created the Hybrid I, designed to represent the average male in height, weight, and proportions. When engineers needed dummies to represent women, children, and infants, the gods of the dummies resized Hybrid I instead of creating the average forms of other human genders
At least 50 cars crash on Denver overpass, the season’s first big pileup
Winter won’t officially be here for another six weeks. That didn’t stop two to five inches of snow from falling in Denver, Colorado overnight as temps dropped into the mid-twenties Friday morning, the first substantial fall of the year in the mile-high city. Traffic didn’t do so well with the suddenly slick roads, Denver police
Deputy who took photos of body parts at Kobe Bryant crash scene and sent them to others: “I didn’t do anything wrong”
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was among the first to arrive at the scene of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his teen daughter and seven others testified Friday that he “didn’t do anything wrong” when he snapped 25 pictures at the site, some of which contained close-up images