Driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after Tesla Autopilot crash in Los Angeles, California last year.
, police say on December 29, 2019, a Tesla Model S operated by Kevin George Aziz Riad, age 27, was moving at a high rate of speed when it left a freeway, ran a red light in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena, and struck a Honda Civic at an intersection., but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , which sent investigators to the scene of the crash, has confirmed that Autopilot was in use in the Tesla at the time of the crash.
Bryant Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies automated vehicles, said this is the first US case to his knowledge in which serious criminal charges were filed in a fatal crash involving a partially automated driver assist system. An Uber test driver was charged with negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, after the vehicle she was driving struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018.
Donald Slavik, a Colorado lawyer who has served as a consultant in automotive technology lawsuits, including many against Tesla, said he also is unaware of any previous felony charges being filed against a US driver who was using partially automated driver technology involved in a fatal crash. The prosecutors, defense lawyers, and attorneys for Tesla have all declined to discuss the matter with the press. The NHTSA has issued a statement saying there is no vehicle on sale that can drive itself and whether or not a car is using a partially automated driving system, “every vehicle requires the human driver to be in control at all times. It added that all state laws hold human drivers responsible for operation of their vehicles.
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