The driver was charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter after two people were killed by the Tesla when Autopilot was engaged.
wheel, a 27-year-old limousine driver, has reportedly pleaded not guilty to the charges.of the deadly crash in question involved a Tesla Model S running a red light at high speeds while exiting a freeway in Gardena, California. The vehicle crashed into a Honda Civic at an intersection, killing two passengers in the Civic and hospitalizing a man and a woman in the Tesla.
This marks the first felony charge involving a widely used driver assistance technology. While an Uber driver testing an autonomous system waswith negligent homicide back in 2020, that system existed in a limited test phase and wasn’t widely available to the general public like Autopilot. And although this case marks the first felony charge involving Autopilot, it’s far from the first time the feature has been implicated in the loss of human life.
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