Wife of Tesla employee who died in what may have been the first Full Self-Driving crash said she and her husband were ‘guinea pigs’

• A Tesla employee died in what may’ve been the first death tied to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving tech.
• Hans von Ohain died in 2022 after his Tesla veered off a mountain road and into a tree.
• Von Ohain’s wife told The Washington Post she felt her family were “guinea pigs” of the tech.

Hans von Ohain, a Tesla recruiter, died in a car crash on a Colorado mountain road after his Tesla Model 3 veered off the road and barreled into a tree, bursting into flames, according to a new report from The Washington Post .

Erik Rossiter, a friend of Ohain’s who was in the vehicle at the time of the 2022 crash and survived the incident, told first responders Ohain had been using the ” auto-drive feature on the Tesla” and the vehicle “just ran straight off the road,” the outlet reported.

If what Rossiter said is true, the incident — which Tesla has so far refused to acknowledge publicly — would be the first known fatality linked to the car company ‘s Full Self-Driving technology.

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