Certainly, Tesla’s driver assistance technologies are frequently in the sights of American authorities.
The Autopilot is here implicated in a fatal accident involving a Tesla Model S.
Tesla driver charged with manslaughter
The case dates back to December 2019 and takes place in Los Angeles (California). As a Tesla Model S driver drives at high speed, he ends up running a red light and, unfortunately, hitting another vehicle with two passengers on board. If Kevin George Aziz Riad, the driver of the Tesla, is doing well, this is not the case for the occupants of the other vehicle, both deceased.
Charged with manslaughter, Mr. Riad also sees the investigation switch. In fact, while the documents relating to the incident did not mention driving assistance, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and its investigators dispatched to the scene confirmed that the Autopilot – which is regularly at the heart of debates about potential drifts – was indeed active at the time of the collision, according to the washington post.
What to again fuel the tensions between the NHTSA and Tesla, while nearly 765,000 vehicles of the firm have Autopilot in the United States alone, still according to the washington post. The families of the deceased have in any case sued Mr. Riad and Tesla, and the preliminary hearing is scheduled for February 23, 2022. Mr. Riad is, in the meantime, released on bail.
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Source: Carscoops
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