Tesla On Autopilot With Sleeping Driver Leads To Police Car Chase

German authorities had to pursue a Tesla that was on autopilot along a highway last week because the vehicle's driver fell asleep, according to a police statement. A patrol from the town of Bamberg tried to subject a Tesla going along the Autobahn 70 to a traffic check at around 12 p.m. local time Wednesday, but the driver did not respond to stop signals or repeated horns from officers, the Bavarian State Police said in a press release. The car kept the same distance from police as it traveled at a speed of 110 kilometers per hour (68.35 miles per hour) from the Viereth-Trunstadt and Bamberg-Hafen junctions, authorities noted. "Officers found that the Tesla driver was reclining in the seat with his eyes closed and his hands off the steering wheel," the statement read. "This strengthened the suspicion that he had left the controls to the autopilot and had fallen asleep," it added.