We Finally Know Exactly What Happened in Last Year's Fatal Tesla Autopilot Crash

Interestingly, that suggests the truck driver could have foreseen the crash--if he had assumed the car would maintain a constant speed. The witness said the Model S was visible to the truck over the crest of a rise in the freeway for "several seconds" before the truck began its left turn. The implication is that the driver either didn't see the Model S coming or assumed--perhaps naturally, given the truck's size and visibility--that the Tesla's driver would brake or change lanes to avoid the collision. That seems like a safe assumption when the driver is human but perhaps less so when the driver is an automated system.