Did ‘secret’ software in electric car cause boy’s death? Or did driver press the accelerator?

A father blames his electric car’s ‘secret’ computer systems for running over and killing a five-year-old boy, a court heard. Ashenafei Demissie, 53, denies pressing the accelerator when his electric Volkswagen ID.4 which hit five-year-old Fareed Amir and his own 12-year-old son Raphael. The incident took place in a car park outside minicab driver Demissie’s flat near London Bridge Station on 25 November 2022. Fareed had been walking home from primary school with his mother Maryam Lemulu when they stopped…