On the last stretch of his 100-mile journey home to Key Largo, Florida, from his office in Boca Raton, George Brian McGee was on the phone with American Airlines. He had a funeral to fly to.
In charge of the driving that night was the autopilot of his Tesla Model S, a system that McGee would later describe as “stupid cruise control”. Five minutes into the call, McGee’s phone fell to the floor and he bent forward to pick it up.
“I looked down, and I ran the stop sign and hit the guy’s car,” he told officers.
