First recorded Tesla Semi crash kills two people in Nevada - BERITAJA

An electrical Tesla Semi motortruck collapsed into 2 vehicles successful Dayton, Nev., complete the weekend, sidesplitting 2 group and raising questions about the truck’s safety features.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office responded to a awesome collision about 7 a.m. connected Sunday astatine the intersection of Highway 50 and Traditions Parkway about 40 miles eastbound of Reno, the agency said.

The agency confirmed a semi-truck was progressive successful the accident, and footage of the segment shows it was a Tesla Semi.

It is the first known clang involving a Tesla Semi, an electrical Class 8 motortruck that Tesla is building successful Nevada and plans to ramp up accumulation of. As liking successful Tesla’s electrical rider vehicles wanes, the institution is betting connected the motortruck to springiness it a needed boost.

The trucks do not person the Full Self-Driving mode disposable successful Tesla cars, but Tesla’s website says they travel modular “with progressive information features that brace pinch precocious centrifugal and brake controls to present traction and stableness successful each conditions.”

According to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, preliminary statements obtained astatine the segment propose the motortruck driver whitethorn person fallen dormant down the wheel.

The clang is nether investigation by the Nevada State Police Highway Patrol, which said further accusation whitethorn beryllium released adjacent week.

The Record-Courier identified the victims arsenic Sergio and Jennifer Villaneuva, a mates who sewage joined successful 2022.

Tesla has not clarified if its semitruck has an automatic emergency braking system. Federal regulators are presently weighing a instruction for emergency braking systems successful vehicles much than 10,000 pounds.