NTSB: Tesla Autopilot 'limitations played a major role' in deadly crash

The National Transportation Safety Board says the car company is not at fault. The design of Tesla's partially self-driving system contributed to a crash that killed an Ohio man in May 2016, a federal transportation official said Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board chair Robert Sumwalt said the Tesla vehicle's "operational limitations played a major role in this collision." His statement came at the beginning of a hearing where the NTSB is expected to rule on whether the Autopilot system on Ohio resident Joshua Brown's Tesla Model S should be blamed for the Florida crash that killed him. Brown was relying on Autopilot's self-accelerating, steering and braking when he slammed into a semi-truck and died instantly.