New video shows Tesla driver and passenger apparently sleeping while on Massachusetts highway: 'It was weird'

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New video shows Tesla driver and passenger apparently sleeping while on Massachusetts highway: 'It was weird'
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'Some guy literally asleep at the wheel,' eyewitness Dakota Randall wrote on Twitter.

A Tesla driver has been caught on camera appearing to be asleep behind the wheel of a car that was traveling along the Massachusetts Turnpike on Sunday.

Video footage uploaded to Twitter by eyewitness Dakota Randall appeared to show the driver with his head pointed fully downwards. A second passenger who was in the vehicle also seemed to have nodded off. The incident was filmed at about 3 p.m. in Newton, close to Exit 17.tweeted yesterdayRandall said he filmed the Tesla driver for about a minute and unsuccessfully attempted to wake up the driver using his car's horn. The motorist remains unidentified.

"At no point did I feel like I was in danger until after the fact, when I thought 'wow, I was just driving next to somebody who was completely asleep on the Mass Pike of all places, like one of the most dangerous roads I can imagine," Randall told ."Yeah, the car stayed the same speed in the same way on the highway, and yeah, it didn't change at all. It was weird."

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