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Huawei's head of autonomous driving, Su Qing, was removed from his position after being criticized for his controversial remarks regarding Tesla vehicles. Qing claimed that Elon Musk's cars are killing people.
Qing attended the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. It was there that the made the claim that Tesla has a high accident rate. He continued to reference the accidents involving Tesla Autopilot where he claimed that the cars "killed" people.
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As translated by Minews, Qing said that Tesla has had a high accident rate in the past few years and that the accident types are similar, from the killing of the first person to the most recent one. He went on to say that their autonomous driving department at Huawei wants to reduce the accident probability as low as possible.