Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home

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The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and local news outlet KHOU 11. 44-year-old Michael Butler was arrested on Wednesday and claimed to have been driving his Model 3 using Tesla’s Full-Self Driving (FSD) system at the time of the crash, according to an arrest affidavit.

The court document includes the officer saying that data extraction from Butler’s phone found several FSD-related Google searches from May 2026: “Tesla fsd not aggressive enough 2026 model,” “tesla fsdnot [sic] aggressive enough 2026,” “tesla fsdnot [s …

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