Michael Boyd
speaker
423 appearances
67 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
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Michael Boyd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 56 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 16.
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Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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Tesla has been sued before when its cars are involved in crashes, but it's rare for a jury to consider arguments about the driver assistance technology that the company calls autopilot.
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The case centers on a crash near Key Largo, Florida, more than six years ago, when a Tesla slammed into a parked SUV, killing a twenty two year old woman and critically injuring her companion.
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The driver of the Tesla had engaged autopilot, which can steer and brake the car on its own, but in the case.
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In this case, it did not.
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Lawyers for the victims accuse Tesla of exaggerating what the technology can do.
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Tesla is expected to argue that the driver is at fault because he wasn't paying attention to the road.
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Joel Rose, NPR News.
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So this is NPR News.
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Drivers struck and killed more than 7,000 people last year.
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Still, that was a decline over the previous year.
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The second year in a row, the pedestrian fatalities fell by more than four percent, according to a report from the Governor's Highway Safety Association.
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The report also looked closely at fatal crashes from the previous year.
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It found that more than three quarters of pedestrian fatalities occur after dark, and that the share of deaths caused by SUVs and pickup trucks has surged.
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Pedestrian fatalities reached a forty year high in twenty twenty two, and while the numbers have declined since then, they remain almost twenty percent higher than they were in twenty sixteen.
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Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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Drivers struck and killed more than seven thousand people last year.
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Still, that was a decline over the previous year.
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The second year in a row, the pedestrian fatalities fell by more than four percent, according to a report from the Governor's Highway Safety Association.
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The report also looked closely at fatal crashes from the previous year.
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