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If you turn off autopilot and put a brick on the accelerator the Tesla may also drive into a tree! Or any car made in the last 100 years for that matter.

> when left to its own devices the car drove at high speed into a tree.

Was it "left to its own devices" though?

You can't put the car in drive from the back seat.

Autosteer is limited to 5MPH over the speed limit unless you are on a divided highway.

The car seems to have accelerated faster than it normally accelerates under autopilot.

Something doesn't add up here.

Was it confirmed that autopilot was on? Hopefully it was wirelessly reporting its black box info since it was burned so badly.