The daily business briefing: July 1, 2016

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1. Regulators investigate fatal Tesla autopilot crash

Federal regulators said Thursday they had opened a preliminary investigation into the fatal crash of a Tesla Model S that happened while its driver was using the autopilot feature. The male driver was killed May 7 in Williston, Florida, when a tractor-trailer made a left turn in front of him. His 2015 Tesla passed under the trailer, which hit the electric car's windshield. "Neither autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor-trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied," Tesla said. The fatality appeared to be the industry's first involving an autopilot feature.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.