Insurers and agents may need to step in and educate their insureds as manufacturers continue to add more computerized driver assist features to vehicles. (Photo: iStock) Insurers and agents may need to step in and educate their insureds as manufacturers continue to add more computerized driver assist features to vehicles. (Photo: iStock)

Many of us have been looking forward to the ease of driving on autopilot, freeing up time so we can spend it more productively.

After the Tesla Model S, purportedly driving in autopilot mode, crashed into the back of a parked fire truck that was responding to an accident on I-405 in Culver City, Calif., we’ve come to understand that “autopilot” is apparently not what it seems to be.

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