“It was a bit frightening when we realized how easy it was to defeat the safeguards, which we proved were clearly insufficient.”

Jake Fischer, the senior director of auto testing for Consumer Reports, regarding the inability for Tesla’s Autopilot to recognize that a person was not behind the wheel of the vehicle. The evaluation comes just days after a Tesla crashed and killed the two passengers, neither of whom were in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash, according to authorities. (Associated Press — April 22, 2021)