Tesla full self-driving system put to the test after Bay Bridge crash
A self-driving Tesla was put to the test by KTVU Friday to try to determine how a Model S caused a Thanksgiving Day eight-car pileup on the Bay Bridge. Brooks Jarosz reports
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