TX Tesla Kills One in Crash Into Home

The New York Times covers the crash.

A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas on Friday night and killed a woman inside, the authorities said.

The driver, Michael Butler, was in a Tesla Model 3 about 8 p.m. local time and operating the car “with an automated driving assistance system,” the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Saturday.

The crash happened in Katy, Texas, about 30 miles west of Houston in Harris County.

Mr. Butler “failed to drive in a single lane, left the roadway and struck the residence” at 1907 Blooming Park Lane, the authorities said.

Source: KHOU

What the big headline newspaper doesn’t tell you it’s that the same Tesla fault just happened about two weeks ago in California.

A quiet Sunday morning in Claremont, California turned into a scene most residents hope to never witness firsthand. Just after 11 a.m. on Chateau Drive, a red Tesla traveling down Diane Avenue failed to slow at an intersection, struck a gray Mercedes stopped at a stop sign, and then continued directly into a nearby home. Six people were transported to local hospitals. The house was red-tagged by the end of the day.

What made this crash stand out beyond the sheer physical destruction was a detail neighbors passed along to reporters on scene: the Tesla driver reportedly claimed the vehicle was in Autopilot at the time of the collision.

Source: CBS8

And you would think the paper could at least mention Tesla crashes like this in New York.

The Town of Oyster Bay Building Department deemed a home in Jericho unsafe after a teenage driver slammed her Tesla into the building late last night.

Nassau County police said the crash happened on Onondaga Place at the intersection of Orange Drive around 9:40 p.m.

Notably, Tesla has tragic design flaws that have been killing dozens of people. The company’s best attempts in 2026 at self-driving, using a tiny course with optimal weather and a human monitor, has been crashing eight times more often than human drivers.

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