That’s tragic. In the case of Zhan at least it seems like the company is being transparent and accepting that this likely ocurred due to a malfunction. Let’s see what that means in terms of actually taking some responsibility for it.

As for the second case, it says:

The Tesla center in Nanjing said that the maximum speed reached 150 kilometers per hour during the accident, and the electric switch was stepped on with no brakes, while Jing stressed that he had been stepping on the brakes

I don’t know what the electric switch is. Is this the accelerator?

It is kind of scary that the tools used to determine whether the user or the manufacturer are responsible for an accident like this one are installed and analyzed by the manufacturer. Or is there a trusted third party mediating this?

Not saying this is what caused this accident, but: Having a foreign company’s AI powered car on your own roads, when that country that company’s based in both hates you and has clearly shown it is not above the dirtiest tactics, is just a bad idea.