While Tesla driver's case ends, autopilot's ethical questions persist

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While Tesla driver's case ends, autopilot's ethical questions persist
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Tesla says its cars are not autonomous, but critics say the electric vehicle maker continues a misleading marketing campaign implying that vehicles using autopilot can drive themselves.

US safety regulators are probing Tesla’s partially automated driving systems in at least 35 crashes and 17 deaths nationwide since 2016. Photo: AP Archive

Aziz Riad faces a restitution hearing on Tuesday, where a judge will determine how much money he owes the families of Gilberto Alcazar Lopez and Maria Guadalupe Nieves-Lopez. Aziz Riad was using Autopilot, and the case has raised legal and ethical questions about the technology, particularly as Tesla sales grow and more automakers equip cars with similar systems.

“They make cars that they know cause accidents, and they don’t care,” said Ochoa, Alcazar Lopez’s spouse, in an interview in Spanish last week. “Families are broken, lives are lost and they don’t care.”

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