An engineering professor warned that people trust self-driving technology so much it’s ‘injuring them or killing them’ a day before Tesla’s massive recall

Elon Musk’s Tesla won’t be the only game in town anymore when it comes to self-driving cars over the next few years. Cummings has for years called for more stringent regulation on self-driving cars and had a public run-in with Musk and his legion of online supporters on the matter in 2021. Now she’s warning that drivers can become negligent behind an autonomous car’s wheel and put themselves at a higher risk of speeding. Story continues“They are letting the cars speed. Of those total crashes, 273 involved Tesla vehicles, five of which were fatal.