MBP freezing and crashing. Possibly due to 3rd party driver

My Late 2013 MacBook Pro has been freezing at times and sometimes crashing. I believe that it might be related to the Future Technologies VCP driver that I installed.

I installed this driver, following the instructions provided by Future Tech here, to perform serial communications over USB to a custom IO breakout board, which has an FTDI controller chip. The reason why I installed it is because the Apple-supplied FTDI driver didn't give me a useful device name in /dev (whereas FTDI's own driver does, in the form tty.usbserial-<device_serial_number> or **.usbserial-<device_serial_number>). I should note that the last time my computer crashed, I had this board connected.

I'm not entirely sure that the driver is the sole cause of the issue, but should I revert back to the Apple-supplied driver just to be safe?

L3 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 4 GB