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By all accounts, 40-year-old Joshua Brown of Canton, Ohio, was bold, fearless and adventurous.
He was sometime who embraced technology and liked to push the limits. A former member of the United States Navy’s SEAL Team 6, he spent more than a decade in the military where his specialty was disarming explosive devices.
On May 7, Brown became the first person to die in a passenger car in Autopilot mode, when his Tesla Model S hit a tractor-trailer after he left a family outing at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.