An 18-year-old driver from Thousand Oaks died in a crash on southbound Highway 101 outside Ventura April 26.
The California Highway Patrol said it responded to reports of a car going off the roadway south of Seacliff shortly before 9 a.m. Officers said they found a gray Tesla car on the right shoulder with an unresponsive driver, CHP officials said in a news release.
In its preliminary investigation, the CHP said the driver apparently let the car drift to the right where it struck a metal guardrail and went over the side of the highway. The driver suffered major injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, CHP said.
Officer Christian Givens said April 27 that the driver veered from the No. 1 lane in the center of the highway all the way to the right.
Notably, this reads to me as a physical guardrail failed to stop AI from killing a human.