The NTSB's July 15 preliminary record says Full Self-Driving (Supervised) was engaged before a June 19 crash in Katy, Texas, but vehicle data showed the driver manually overrode it by pressing the accelerator to 100%, and speed exceeded 70 mph at impact [1].

The car continued through the end of a residential road, crossed an intersection where through traffic had to turn, and struck a house on a road limited to 30 mph; a resident was killed, the driver sustained minor injuries, AP identified the resident as Martha Avila, and recorded clear weather and a dry road do not explain the accelerator input [1][3].

Those facts narrow this event without explaining why the pedal was pressed, what warnings preceded it or how every control behaved, and the NTSB says all aspects remain under investigation and has not issued a probable-cause finding; its docket had not been released by cutoff, so the deeper event-data record was unavailable [1][2].

The fleet question belongs to a separate agency record because AP reports a NHTSA engineering analysis covering 3.2 million vehicles and another inquiry into 58 alleged traffic-law incidents, neither of which is resolved by one manual override or makes this preliminary crash record a fleetwide safety verdict [3].

No auditable same-day X post was recovered, leaving total exoneration and total condemnation unobserved rather than evidence; the authoritative preliminary record is narrower: supervised assistance was on, the accelerator was fully pressed, and the cause inquiry remains open.

-- THEO KAPLAN, San Francisco