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    Tesla driver cops huge penalties for treating suburban street like a highway

    A Tesla driver caught doing twice the speed limit has received almost $3000 in fines, a six-month licence suspension, and has had their plates confiscated for three months.

    A Tesla driver has lost their driver’s licence after being caught travelling 104km/h in a 50km/h zone in Sydney’s south-west.

    According to a post on the NSW Traffic and Highway Patrol Command Facebook page, Liverpool City Highway Patrol officers caught the offending driver during a regular patrol.

    Their driver’s licence was suspended for six months and their vehicle’s number plates seized for three months.

    In addition, the driver received a $2794 infringement notice.

    It doesn’t appear the driver tried to blame Tesla’s driver assistance technology for the infraction, as some have done recently.

    A motorist in Melbourne blamed Autopilot for striking a pedestrian, before later admitting it was her own fault, while a California driver blamed their Model S’ Full Self-Driving system for striking a parked police car.

    Dev Singh

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