Two people were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after a head-on collision on Highway 154 near Painted Cave Road. The crash involved two Teslas and a Subaru and temporarily shut down the mountain highway.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the driver of a blue Tesla had been using Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode before the crash, but took manual control of the vehicle as he accelerated in order to pass.
“A driver in a blue Tesla utilizing Full Self-Driving mode didn’t have his hands on the wheel and hit the gas so he could pass a car,” said CHP spokesperson Jonathan Gutierrez. “Then as he went around the curve, the Tesla driver changed lanes into oncoming traffic,”…