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Tesla told regulators about Autopilot crash 9 days after accident

The Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash on May 7 is shown with the top third of the car sheared off by the impact of a collision with a tractor-trailer truck in Williston, Fla. (Reuters)

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By:

Alexandria Sage and Paul Lienert

July 05, 2016 05:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla Motors Inc. alerted regulators to a fatality in one of its electric cars in partial self-driving Autopilot mode nine days after it crashed, the company said on Tuesday, defending its decision not to make the accident public before a federal investigation was announced.

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