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Last Sunday, Tesla Model S of the United States hit a tree in the quarantine area and caught fire, killing the driver on the spot. Tesla had another accident in just a few days.

A Model 3 crashed into a trailer in Florida on March 1, eastern time, killing the driver on the spot when the front of the Model 3 was "shoveled off", foreign media Electrek reported. The Model 3 is suspected of turning on Autopilot-assisted autopilot.

The intersection where the accident occurred:

Local police said the accident was still under investigation and the vehicles involved turned on the Autopilot-assisted autopilot function.

According to the report, Model 3 continued to drive about half a kilometer before it stopped after the collision, much like the world's first fatal self-driving accident in 2016, when Model S crashed into a trailer at full speed.

On May 7, 2016, a 2015 Model S in Williston, Florida, crashed into a heavy truck while turning on Autopilot-assisted autopilot mode, killing its driver. Tesla explained at the time, "under the bright sky, neither the Autopilot system nor the driver noticed the white side of the heavy truck, so they did not hit the brakes."

In the Model 3 crash, the car drove about 500m after hitting the trailer, which is suspicious, so it is suspected that the car turned on the Autopilot function like the one in 2016. After the accident, Tesla's shares closed down 7.84 per cent on March 1st.

There have been a number of Autopilot-related accidents in the United States and around the world since the global first collision of Tesla-assisted self-driving in 2016. In March last year, the driver of Tesla ModelX in California was killed on the spot, and the accident was also confirmed that the vehicle used Autopilot. Tesla also admitted that Autopilot was an imperfect system, but insisted that his system was better than other systems.

Tesla has always worked hard to promote his auxiliary autopilot system Autopilot, and after a number of accidents, Tesla has been explaining that Autopilot does not reduce safety, and that the consequences of not using Autopilot may be extremely serious, but there are still views that Tesla's widespread use of Autopilot in immature situations is very radical.

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