I don't know if its been said clearly enough yet (I did go through all the posts) but it has been confirmed that the owner who died in this Tesla did have Autopilot enabled when it crashed.
Tesla Model X was in autopilot before fatal crash
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/31/technology/tesla-model-x-crash-autopilot/index.html
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-crash-california/
https://www.recode.net/2018/4/2/17183860/tesla-crash-autopilot-elon-musk
There is some spectacular footage of the crash here, they even have Tesla engineers yanking out 18650 battery module remains.
https://youtu.be/EqUk19I-16Q , specifically here for the super impatient https://youtu.be/EqUk19I-16Q?t=13s
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This guys photos are pretty good as well
https://twitter.com/DeanCSmith/status/977286282991755264
To me it really seems the front of the car didn't provide much protection at all.
Like the Uber fatality as I pointed out here ( https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=93360&start=100#p1369139 ) where the car continued for another 40-50 meters after the collision, these two companies self-driving technology is garbage, the Google self-driving car is massively better/smarter.
Tesla and Uber are putting their company share prices valuations well above public safety.
Tesla and Renewable energy articles/videos are Bloomberg bread and butter it seems for the amount of news they do on it, everyone seems to just love watching this kind of stuff, there's almost a Tesla video here every day just on their Bloomberg Technology YT channel. So you can watch videos on Tesla until your head falls off.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrM7B7SL_g1edFOnmj-SDKg/search?query=Tesla