SAN FRANCISCO: Two men killed after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree north of Houston, authorities said. “There was no one in the driver’s seat,” Sgt Cinthya Umanzor of the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 said of the crash on Saturday night.

Incidentally, the 2019 Tesla Model-S was traveling at high speed when it failed to negotiate a curve and went off the roadway, crashing to a tree and bursting into flames, as per reports.

"There was a person in the passenger seat of the front of the car and in the rear passenger seat of the car," the report quoted Herman as saying on Sunday.

Herman said it took firefighters nearly four hours and more than 30,000 gallons of water to extinguish the blaze." Normally when the fire department arrives, they have the vehicle fire in control in minutes, but this went on close to four hours," according to a KHOU 11 report. At one point, crews had to call Tesla to ask how to put the fire out. Preliminary reports suggest the car was traveling at a high speed and failed to make a turn, then drove off the road into a tree.

The accident came amid growing scrutiny over Tesla’s semi-automated driving system following recent accidents and as it is preparing to launch its updated “full self-driving” software to more customers.

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