
APRIL 26–A Tesla owner has been charged with vehicular homicide after his car–traveling in autopilot mode–slammed into a motorcyclist when he got distracted looking at his cellphone, according to Washington court records.
Police say that Carl Hunter, 56, was driving his 2022 Model S last Friday afternoon when the vehicle rear-ended a motorcycle on State Route 522 near Snohomish, a city 35 miles north of Seattle.
The collision killed Jeffrey Nissen, a 28-year-old construction worker who was on his way home. When cops arrived at the crash scene, the Tesla sedan was atop the motorcycle “with a male rider laying next to the Tesla’s driver rear side.”
A GoPro camera that had been…