Next Autopilot trial to test Tesla’s blame-the-driver defense, ET Auto
Tesla materials explaining the system warn that it doesn't make the car autonomous and requires a "fully attentive driver" who can "take over at any moment".Six weeks before the first fatal U.S. accident involving Tesla's Autopilot in 2016, the automaker's president Jon McNeill tried it out in a Model X and emailed feedback to automated-driving chief Sterling Anderson, cc'ing Elon Musk.The system performed perfectly, McNeill wrote, with the smoothness of a human…