NOTE: The above video is from the June 23 edition of the Htown Morning News.
HOUSTON (CW39) — Federal safety investigators looking into a runaway Tesla that killed a grandmother in her home in Katy last month said the driver had pressed the accelerator to full speed, suggesting the vehicle’s self-driving software was not to blame.
The driver had told Harris County deputies that he had the self-driving software turned on, but a report from the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday concluded that he had actually overridden that feature when he pushed hard on the pedal. Moments later the Tesla Model 3 raced down a residential street in the Memorial Parkway area of Katy, at highway speeds, slammed into a brick home and killed a 76-year-old woman standing in the front room…