Judging from the photo in the article, the truck was parked in a parking space, and somebody... just pulled into the space without realizing the truck was there? It's possible that the truck was moved to its position in the photo subsequent to the accident and that the accident occurred elsewhere, but from the way the car is embedded in the truck, I am disinclined to believe that.
Assuming that the photo depicts the location correctly, my first guess is that an automatic parking feature is involved, because I would be surprised that any driver--much less one with a passenger in the front seat--would so completely miss the fact that an eighteen-wheeler truck is in the parking space while attempting to park there, and continue to miss it for so long to embed the car that deep underneath.
There is no way this was automatic parking. The only way for that to happen is if the Tesla hit it at speed. This was a rest area, where off ramps lead directly into parking lots where trucks are parked in rows in the middle of the lot. It was almost certainly the result of an inattentive driver plowing into the truck from the off ramp.
Assuming that the photo depicts the location correctly, my first guess is that an automatic parking feature is involved, because I would be surprised that any driver--much less one with a passenger in the front seat--would so completely miss the fact that an eighteen-wheeler truck is in the parking space while attempting to park there, and continue to miss it for so long to embed the car that deep underneath.