I been reading stories about this sad situation. I feel really bad for the family of the Apple Engineer.
What is interesting about the situation is that the Apple employee previously reported to Tesla that the Autopilot system would abruptly swerve towards the barrier multiple times during his commute, but the dealership was unable to replicate the situation.
Another interesting part was this from the NTSB:
NTSB said:
The Tesla's collision avoidance system was "not designed to detect the crash [barrier]"
Not sure how that sits with Elon Musk's promise of a "Truly Self-Driving Tesla" by the end of this year if this poor guy's Tesla couldn't detect a crash barrier.
I have a feeling that the self driving Tesla will not happen by this December.