Federal safety officials announced Monday they are launching a new special crash investigation into a deadly June 19 incident involving a Tesla Model 3 that drove into a residential home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old woman. Investigators believe the vehicle’s advanced driver assistance system may have been engaged at the time of the crash.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been scrutinizing Tesla’s driver assistance technology for years. Since 2016, the agency has opened more than three dozen special crash investigations involving Tesla vehicles where systems like Autopilot were suspected of being in use. Across those cases, 20 deaths have been reported.
