Tesla driver in fatal California crash first to face felony charges involving Autopilot
blaming the beta version of the company's Full Self Driving technology for a collision in California. notes, Riad is the first to face charges involving a widely used driver assistance technology, but he's not the very first person using an automated driving system to be charged in the US. In 2020, an Uber backup driver was chargedafter the company's autonomous test vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
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