Tesla Model X on Autopilot sped up seconds before deadly crash in Silicon Valley, report says

In its post-crash blog post, the company said that Tesla cars on Autopilot had passed the same spot 85,000 times without incident. It also noted that a crash attenuator on the concrete barrier, a metal frame meant to absorb the impact of a crash, had been damaged in an earlier crash, so the impact of Huang's car was more severe than it might otherwise have been.