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Business Matters: US Opens Investigation into Tesla after Fatal Crash

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01/07/2016 GMT

US Opens Investigation into Tesla after Fatal Crash

BBC World Service - Business Matters, US Opens Investigation into Tesla after Fatal Crash

Tech investor Ben Parr talks about the safety issues for automated driving systems

Tesla say it is the first fatality in just over 130 million miles using its automated driving system

US transport investigators are looking into a fatal accident involving the driver of a car using an autopilot.  The accident took place in May in Florida, and Tesla say it is the first fatality in just over 130 million miles using its automated driving system. Tesla's shares fell 3%  on the news. It's a significant moment, given the interest being shown by major car makers in driverless technology. We hear from tech investor Ben Parr is a tech investor about the safety issues concerned.

The prospect of the UK leaving the European Union means that Britain may no longer be in the single market, and may need to negotiate new terms of trade. What sort of deal will it get? Lord Digby Jones is a former head of the CBI, Britain's biggest business grouping, and also served as a trade minister in the last Labour government.  Jon Bithrey asked him what Britain needs from its European friends in terms of a new trade deal

Australians vote in national elections this coming weekend.  Climate change, immigration and education are amongst the key issues - but in the end it is the economy that is likely to decide who wins.  Australia has avoided recession for 25 years, but the future is unclear as a resources boom fuelled by China's appetite for iron ore and coal continues to fade.  From Sydney, the BBC's Phil Mercer reports…

For the duration of the programme, we'll be joined by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific - Nancy Koehn historian at the Harvard Business School from Washington, and Stephanie Studer, Korea Bureau Chief for the Economist  in Seoul.


Photo Description: Exterior of a Tesla showroom in California.
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