L.A. County prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot after a deadly crash in 2019.
Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot that ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people in 2019.
by two federal agencies. The filing of charges in the California crash could serve notice to drivers who use systems such as Autopilot that they cannot rely on them to control vehicles.Recent moves by the top U.S. automotive safety watchdog could change the way Tesla markets its cars’ advanced driver-assist capabilities -- or force the company to recall the software altogether.
Riad’s defense attorney did not respond to requests for comment last week, and the L.A. County district attorney’s office declined to discuss the case. Riad’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 23. Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies automated vehicles, said this is the first U.S. case to his knowledge in which serious criminal charges were filed in a fatal crash involving a partially automated driver-assist system. Tesla, he said, could be “criminally, civilly or morally culpable” if it is found to have put a dangerous technology on the road.
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