Around 2:35 a.m. Thursday, a Tesla struck and killed a 71-year-old man crossing westbound Interstate 80 at the I-780 interchange in Vallejo, the California Highway Patrol said.

The driver, a 26-year-old man from San Francisco, stayed at the scene and told officers the vehicle was operating in Full Self-Driving autonomous mode. The Solano County Coroner's Office identified the man as Domingo Gonzales, according to the San Francisco Chronicle report carried by Yahoo.

The Tesla's dashboard camera recorded the entire collision. The CHP's preliminary review shows the car traveling about 70 mph in the No. 2 lane when the pedestrian entered the freeway from the right shoulder, walking toward the center divide and directly into its path.

The video captured the brakes being applied as the vehicle steered left in an evasive attempt, but the right front portion of the Tesla struck him anyway. The CHP said the man was then hit by at least one more vehicle while lying in the traffic lanes, and no other driver stopped to cooperate.

This is the second fatal crash this month on a Solano County freeway involving a Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode.

On October 13, a 22-year-old Sacramento driver told CHP investigators he was asleep while FSD was engaged when his Tesla drove through safety cones and slammed into a CHP Dodge Charger on eastbound I-80 near Fairfield, seriously injuring two officers.

Neither FSD driver was ticketed, though Officer Scott Heitman told the Chronicle that charges could be filed through the district attorney's office if negligence is found.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving system can steer, change lanes and navigate highways, but the company maintains it is not fully autonomous and requires an alert, ready-to-take-over driver.

Some motorists have admitted to eating or napping while the system was engaged, testing its driver-monitoring safeguards. Patch reports that under California law, drivers remain responsible for safely operating their vehicles even when using automated driving assistance systems.

Tesla's self-driving claims have drawn federal scrutiny before.

SFist notes that last fall the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into 58 reports of the FSD system ignoring red and green lights, veering into oncoming traffic while changing lanes, and using incorrect lanes to turn or go straight.

Democratic senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal urged the agency in June not to rely on Tesla's own metrics, and Tesla quietly settled a 2023 lawsuit after a 71-year-old woman was killed on an Arizona freeway by a Model Y in FSD mode.

The CHP's Solano-area office is investigating and has not said whether Full Self-Driving contributed to the Vallejo crash. Anyone who witnessed the collision or has information about the other vehicle involved is asked to call the office at 707-639-5600.

The Solano County District Attorney's Office could bring charges if investigators determine the Tesla driver was negligent, and the unidentified driver of the subsequent vehicle remains at large.