Human Driver of ‘Driverless’ Car Charged in 2018 Ped Death
In Arizona prosecutor has brought charges of negligent homicide against the first human driver to fail to prevent an imperfect “self-driving” vehicle from killing a pedestrian.
By
Kea Wilson
5:22 PM CDT on September 17, 2020
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