This past Saturday night, a Tesla Model S crashed into a tree in a neighborhood north of Houston.

Both men inside the car were killed.

Fyri crashed and left two men dead.

The victims were in a Tesla that burned for four hours.

It's the kind of everyday tragedy that happens all across the country.

But there's something about this crash that's different.

The car is still under investigation, but authorities say they are, quote, certain, no one was

driving the vehicle at the time of impact.

One man was apparently in the front passenger seat, another in the rear.

Now, investigators want to know whether Tesla's autopilot feature played a role in the crash.

Tesla says autopilot is meant to assist drivers with things like braking and steering and not

to take over.

But at least 23 other crashes have some linked the use of this Tesla technology.

Technology that Missy Cummings has been warning about for years.

Do you remember where you were when you heard the news about this latest Tesla crash in Houston?

I was hiking on the Appalachia Trail and you know, you just kind of hit a peak and then

all of a sudden my phone buzzed.

Cummings is a professor at Duke.

She runs the human and autonomy lab there, studying how people interact with automated

technology.

And I looked down and it was a friend of mine who reached out to tell me what had happened.

Cummings knew that given her public criticism of autopilot, lots of people, including people

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