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Sleeping Tesla driver caught on Swedish highway – after 25 miles

A Swedish Tesla driver who had activated Autopilot fell asleep at the wheel. The car continued to drive for 25 miles before the police managed to stop it.

The driver, who works for a car delivery company, was driving a 2019 Tesla Model X when he suddenly fell asleep at the wheel outside Linköping, south of the capital Stockholm. My understanding was that he barely understood what had happened,” one of the police officers write in his incident report. Tesla states in the vehicle manual that the Autopilot system should only be used when the driver is paying attention to the road.

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