Baby driver: Woman gives birth in Tesla on autopilot

Couple were stuck in traffic on way to the hospital when remarkable delivery occurred
The baby’s delivery in an autopilot car is a good news story for Tesla, which has been plagued by bad publicity over safety concerns and workplace abuse.

The baby’s delivery in an autopilot car is a good news story for Tesla, which has been plagued by bad publicity over safety concerns and workplace abuse.

A mother has given birth to what is believed to be the world’s first Tesla baby: an infant delivered in the front seat of an electric smart car while it was driving on autopilot.

The remarkable delivery, reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, took place in September while Yiran Sherry, 33, and her husband Keating Sherry, 34, were taking their three-year-old son Rafa to pre-school.

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