EditorialMissy Cummings, a professor of engineering and computer science, in a driving simulator at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Feb. 10, 2023. (Lexey Swall/The New York Times)
EditorialA driver uses the autopilot system in his Cadillac to travel hands-free along the Palisades Turnpike in New Jersey on June 16, 2019. (Mason Dent/The New York Times)
EditorialA Tesla rear-ended a patrol vehicle at the scene of an earlier crash on Interstate 10 near Benson, Ariz., in July 2020. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via The New York Times)
EditorialThe Maldonado family, Benjamin Maldonado, Sr., second from left, and his wife Adriana Garcia right, with children Benjamine Maldonado, Jr, left, and Xitlali Raya Garcia, second from right, pose at their San Lorenzo, Calif. home on June 28, 2021, with a portrait of their son Jovani, 15, who was killed when a Tesla operating on autopilot rear-ended the family’s pickup truck. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialNational Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt speaks with investigators during a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, regarding the probable cause of a fatal 2018 crash of a Tesla automobile in California. (Michael A. McCoy/The New York Times)
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Grammy Nominated producer Joe Mourad aka DJ Klypso who was pulled over for using his phone and sticking his feet out of the window while driving his Model S with Autopilot activated has had the ticket dismissed after convincing the judge that the Tesla wa