For years we have seen police reluctant to admit driverless technology is at fault in Tesla crashes.

Leave it to a damaged donut shop to turn police sentiment against the defective car maker.

Police in Middletown Twp., Bucks County said that a “self driving issue” was being looked at as the cause for a single accident on the 900 block of South Woodbourne Road. A Tesla operated by a New Jersey resident plowed into the side of a Dunkin Donuts, at the corner of Trenton and Woodbourne Road.

Since 2016 hundreds have died, thousands have been injured, and many more are still grieving… yet the threat to donut safety is what finally pushed Tesla driverless software under more appropriately harsh scrutiny?

The two donut shop workers in this latest Tesla driverless crash suffered only minor injuries. The uniquely Tesla explosive battery design fortunately did not ignite upon impact. And yet, police say they “looked at” driverless, finally.

The tone is a notable escalation from just five months ago, when a Tesla that destroyed a donut shop in Long Island didn’t even make the news.