U.S. senator asks Tesla to brief committee on Autopilot crash

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Senator John Thune, a South Dakota Republican who heads the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, asked the automaker to brief the committee by July 29 on the incident and "Tesla's actions in response and the company's cooperation with" U.S. auto safety regulators, according to the letter seen by Reuters. Tesla didn't have an immediate comment on the letter.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Jeffrey Hodgson)