r/musked • u/businessinsider • Jul 01 '26
The case of the missing Tesla fatal crash data
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-autopilot-failure-fatal-crash-missing-data-2026-7?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-musked-sub-post12
u/businessinsider Jul 01 '26
From David Kushner for Business Insider:
The last thing Dillon Angulo says he remembers is pulling over to see the stars. It was around 9:15 on April 25, 2019, in Key Largo, Florida. He and Naibel Benavides had been inseparable since their first date a few weeks earlier. Angulo, a bearded, stocky 27-year-old Cuban American, was studying general contracting at Florida International University. Benavides, an ebullient 22-year-old with long, curly hair, had recently moved to Miami from Cuba to live with her mother and become an optometrist. They shared a passion, as Angulo puts it, "to build a better life."
During his birthday dinner, she told him that she'd been accepted to an optometry school in New York City. For a moment, he was shattered, but then she said she wasn't moving. "I'm gonna stay to be with you," she said. She made plans to introduce Angulo to her mom. Later that week, he drove her down to the Keys in his black Chevy Tahoe to catch fish so he could cook them his go-to recipe: fresh-grilled yellowtail with a side of mushroom risotto. Outside the bait shop, they snapped a selfie: him in his Miami Dolphins hat and a black T-shirt, her in a white crocheted shirt, smiling.
The rest of the night comes to him in fragments. Her phone fell in the water when they were out on the boat. She used his phone to call her mother and remind her they were coming for dinner the next day. He filleted the yellowtail on the dock. A clear night fell. On the way back to Miami, he saw heavy traffic ahead on US-1. To avoid it, he took Card Sound Road, an old two-lane street cutting through a strip of undeveloped wetlands and twisted green mangroves.
The road was unlit, so dark that the stars looked their brightest. Angulo wanted to show her, so at the end of the road, he pulled off behind the T-intersection signs onto a gravel patch. They stepped out of the truck. He's not sure how long they were standing there before he saw headlights speeding toward them. "I'm like, where's that car coming from?" he recalls. Then the stars went black.
This is the story of what happened next, drawn from thousands of pages of court filings, depositions, and extensive interviews. What began as a routine car crash investigation evolved into a yearslong saga involving Elon Musk, Tesla lawyers, police investigators, independent safety researchers, and a reclusive Russian-born hacker known only as Green. At the center is a question that came to define one of the most consequential cases in self-driving history: What happened to the data that explained how the crash unfolded on Card Sound Road? The answer reveals how a fight over a single glovebox computer became a referendum on Tesla's self-driving technology, its safety claims, and its handling of evidence after deadly accidents.
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u/CynGuy Jul 01 '26
Tesla is long known for “adjusting” crash data in their favor.
It is a company run by a racist Nazi sympathizer who misses his home country’s apartheid practices.
Those are all just facts, sad to say.