Kyle Shanahan makes shocking revelation about car during accident

Kyle Shanahan took one more step toward resuming his normal duties as 49ers head coach Saturday, holding his first news conference since suffering a severe concussion in a car crash last month and revealed new details about the circumstances leading up to the wreck.Shanahan, already deemed to be at fault for the July 14 collision between his black Tesla and a blue Mercedes in Palo Alto, said he had been using the electric car’s autopilot function at the time of the crash.“I’ve had autopilot for nine years, so I’m pretty comfortable with it.Who knows what happened when I turned around, whether it malfunctioned or I knocked it off? That’s something I don’t know yet,” Shanahan said.

“But regardless, it is always your fault, whether you’re on autopilot or not — take your eyes off the road, it’s a partnership, driving, you don’t just turn it over to a computer. “It’s a good lesson on no matter how comfortable I am with that, that I believe someday could save my life or someone else’s, it’s really helped me have perspective on that stuff.”Autopilot, per Tesla, is a “hands-on driver assistance system that is intended to be used only with a fully attentive driver.” The Niners coach already revealed that he had taken his eyes off the road to pick up his cell phone and on Saturday expanded, adding that had to reach all the way into the back seat of the car and that he “fully [took] my eyes off the road.”The crash left Shanahan with broken ribs, a laceration on his face that required 40 stitches, a broken nose and a broken hand, in addition to the concussion, according to ESPN.The concussion has limited Shanahan in practice and put his status in doubt heading into the 49ers’ season, but he confirmed that he would be on the sidelines Thursday when they host the Tennessee Titans at Levi’s Stadium for their preseason opener.Besides an impromptu session in his office with a small group of reporters to clarify that the accident was hi...