The police say they are investigating.
According to Gonzalez, the vehicle was traveling south when it passed through a stop sign at a T-shaped intersection and crashed directly into the house. The impact threw Gonzalez from the couch.
The homeowner said motorists who stopped after witnessing the crash told him the driver was asleep and that the Tesla was operating in Autopilot mode.
“There’s two people running towards me saying, ‘He’s asleep. He’s asleep.’ And then when I look to the side, I see the Tesla right in the house,” Gonzalez said. “Yeah. And the guy was still out, which is funny.”
This is not to be confused with the other Tesla in NY that also just crashed into a house.
A Tesla crashed into a home in Mastic on Saturday night, Suffolk police said.
A 25-year-old Islip man was driving a 2024 Tesla sedan northbound on Grand Avenue, when he lost control of the vehicle, and it left the roadway, before crashing into the home at around 9:15 p.m., according to police.
And neither of those are said to have anything to do with the Tesla in New Jersey that also just crashed into a house.
A 68-year-old Plainsboro man suffered minor injuries Friday after the Tesla he was driving crashed through a garage and into the kitchen of a home on Pheasant Run, township police said.