Self-driving Tesla driver to stand trial for murder in tragic Los Angeles crash
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A Los Angeles court has ruled that 27-year-old Kevin George Aziz Riad, driver of a self-driving Tesla Model S, will stand trial on two counts of murder. The victims were identified as Gilberto Alcazar Lopez, 40, and Maria Guadalupe Nieves-Lopez, 39.
A Los Angeles County judge has ruled that 27-year-old Kevin George Aziz Riad, the self-driving Tesla Model S driver involved in the crash that killed two people, should stand trial for manslaughter.
The judge's decision came after authorities found sufficient evidence against Aziz Riad for the deaths of two people in a traffic accident in Los Angeles, California.
The accident was recorded in 2019
The accident, which involved Kevin George Aziz Riad, was recorded on December 29, 2019, when he was on board his plane with the autopilot on.
Enough elements were found to hold the Tesla driver liable for two counts of manslaughter of a vehicle, according to the investigation.
On the day of the accident, Aziz Riad was driving a Tesla Model S at 74 mph in Gardena, a suburb of Los Angeles.
The car ran through a red traffic light
A device that had autopilot activated when it veered off the highway and ran a red light, causing it to crash into a Honda Civic at an intersection.
Gilberto Alcazar López, 40, and Maria Guadalupe Nieves-López, 39, who died in the crash, were driving a Honda Civic.
The victims died on their first date.
Alcazar Lopez, a Rancho Dominguez native, and Nieves-Lopez, a Lynwood native, were on their first date on the night of the accident, relatives told the Orange County Register.
While Kevin George Aziz Riad and the woman who accompanied him on the night of the accident, whose identity has not been released, were hospitalized with no threat to their lives.
autonomous driving
Prosecutor's reports note that Autosteer and cruise control systems were active at the time of the accident, taking into account Tesla traffic.
At the same time, an engineer from Elon Musk's company, who testified, emphasized that the sensors indicated that Kevin George Aziz Riad had his hand on the steering wheel.
But crash data showed the brakes weren't applied six minutes before impact, Fox 11 LA notes.
The police officer's statement emphasizes that various road signs were placed at the end of the highway warning drivers to slow down, but Aziz Riad appeared to ignore the issue.
Effective autopilot?
emphasized that the autopilot and the "full autonomous driving" system cannot be controlled completely alone.
Therefore, they must be supervised by car drivers, as they must be alert to respond to any incident that occurs on the road.
Automated steering, which controls direction, speed and braking, has been the subject of an investigation by two federal agencies.
The Los Angeles traffic accident case will be the first prosecution in the United States against a driver who used a partially automated driving system.
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