Just a heads up that we start this episode with a discussion of a fatal car crash.

You might not want to listen with kids.

Okay, here's the show.

On March 23rd of 2018, Walter Huang dropped his son off at preschool.

Wang was 38.

He worked as a software engineer for Apple, and he'd recently purchased a Tesla Model X.

He liked his car so much that he joined a Facebook group about it.

And he was a devoted fan of Tesla and autopilot.

I write in the book that he would, you know, watch videos,

you know, about Tesla and autopilot in his spare time. That's Washington Post reporter Fez Siddiqui.

And the book he's talking about is one he just wrote, hubris Maximus, the shattering of Elon Musk.

Walter Poyne trusted Tesla. He trusted autopilot to the extent that, you know, one day after

dropping his child off at school, he sets his Tesla to autopilot on his way to work, and he

sort of drifts off or becomes overly trusting of it, as investigators later concluded.

He fires up a video game on his phone. He's on the 101 in California. The autopilot maintains

its set speed. It keeps its distance behind other vehicles, but eventually it loses its lane.

And the car, as I write in the book, does what it's programmed to do.

You know, once it's in that sort of no-man's land, it's lost its lane.

It speeds up to match what it anticipates might be the flow of traffic.

And this car speeds up and ends up crashing into a highway barrier.

The car was traveling at 71 miles per hour.

When it hit the barrier, it spun counterclockwise and the front part of the car separated from the back.

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