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In the Federal Court of Miami, a jury partially blamed for a fatal 2019 crash, which involves the use of the company’s autopilot driver assistance system.
The jury simply evaluated punitive losses against Tesla, CNBC reported. The total amount of disciplinary penalties with compensatory loss makes about $ 242.5 million.
The driver or autopilot system did not break during the intersection, where the car hit an SUV and killed a pedestrian. The jury offered two-thirds of the fault to the driver and one-third of Tesla blamed Tesla. (The driver was sued separately.)
The verdict came after the three -week trial due to the accident, which killed 20 -year -old Nayabal Benavides Leon and seriously injured his boyfriend Dillon Angulo. The first major legal decision about the driver assistance technology against Tesla is the verdict. The agency has settled the case before Involves similar claims about autopilotsThe
The plaintiff’s chief Attorney Brett said in a statement to Brett Shriber Techcunch that Tesla designed to “not only for controlled access highways, yet deliberately chose drivers to ban it from using it, as well as Ilon mask better than humans.”
“Tesla’s falsehoods in Tesla’s lies turned our roads into test tracks for their fundamentally defective technology, which damages the daily Americans like Naibal Benavides and Dillon Angles,” said Shriib. “Today’s verdict represents justice for the tragic death of Naybel and Dillon’s lifetime injuries, responsible for encouraging the company’s trillion-dollar evaluation with self-driving hype at the expense of human life.”
In a statement to TechCrunch, Tesla said, “Looking at the law and irregularities during the trial,” plans to apply for the verdict. ”
The company wrote, “Today’s judgment is wrong and only to restore automotive protection and to the development and implement of Tesla and life -saving technology, the entire industry’s efforts are in danger,” the company wrote. “Obviously, there is no car in 2019, and today no one could stop the accident. It was never about autopilot; it was a fiction to blame the car by the plaintiff’s lawyers when the driver – first – accepted and accepted responsibility.”
Tesla and Kasturi have spent several years claiming the capacity of autopilot, which driver has led to excessive confidence in the assistance system, which is a reality that government officials – and their own musk – have spoken over the years.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) came after the 2018 accident in 2021, which came to determination where the driver died after a concrete barrier. That driver was Walter Huang Playing a mobile game while using AutopilotThe NTSB made several recommendations after that investigation, which Tesla has originally ignoredThe The Protection Board has later claimedThe
In a 2018 conference call, Kasturi said that “self -satisfaction” is a problem with a driver support system like autopilot.
“They only get used to it so much that it can be an issue it it is not lacking understanding what autopilot can do it it is it. [drivers] They think they know more about the autopilot than they are, “musk At that time saidThe
Tesla was currently tried at that time when he was currently In the middle of the rotation of its first versions of the long-promoted Robotaxi networkStarting in Austin, Texas. These vehicles are using an extended version of Tesla’s more capable driver assistance system, which is completely self-driving.
Update: This story has been updated to include the amount of total compensation lossThe