A driver of a Tesla Model S in the United States, who had his vehicle operating on Autopilot, is facing manslaughter charges for a crash that killed two persons in 2019 in Los Angeles, California,
A Tesla engineer testified that the driver of the Model S, Riad had one hand on the steering wheel, however data showed that there was no brake input in the six minutes before the crash, and prosecutors said that the electric vehicle’s Autosteer and Traffic Aware Cruise Control systems were active at the time.
I would also suggest that the NFU is not wildly representative of the general motoring population of the UK being a fairly conservative/traditional insurance company on top of the very rural bias pointed out in the article.
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