Elon Musk’s Tesla fined over ₹1,996 crore in Florida autopilot crash case; jury flags ‘responsibility’ amid tech failure
After Elon Musk found a Miami jury responsible for the incident, a deadly car accident in Florida was ordered to pay more than $ 240 million.
The Federal Jury observed that Tesla has an important responsibility for the failure of its technology. All the accusation cannot be put in the driver of the car, even when a couple hit a young couple hit by a mobile phone, even confessing that they are distracted.
The decision of the jury comes at a time when Elon Musk’s Americans try to open a taxi company in several cities in a short period of time, and the Americans Tesla’s cars are safe.
The jury’s decision ends a four -year case that stands out not only for the result, but also for the fact that it causes even a trial. Some such cases against Tesla have been dismissed or settled by the company to avoid controversial experiments before.
Miguel Custodio, a car accident lawyer who is not involved in Tesla case, said, “This flood will open its doors,” he said. “It will strengthen many people in such a way that they are in court.”
What is Tesla case?
The case also included surprising accusations of lawyers for the deceased, 22 -year -old Naibel Benavides Leon’s family and wounded boyfriend Dillon Angulo. They claimed that Tesla had kept or lost basic evidence, including the data recorded seconds before the accident and the video. Tesla said that after the evidence was shown, he made a mistake and did not think he was there honestly.
“We finally learned what happened that night and the car was really flawed, Neim “Justice was obtained.”
Tesla had previously faced criticism that coughing of important data by the accusations rejected by the automobile company was slow. In this case, the plaintiffs showed that despite Tesla’s repeated denials, a judicial data expert to win him and had evidence.
Tesla’s response
“Today’s decision is wrong, Tes Tesla said in a statement,“ And only to get back the automotive security and to endanger the efforts of Tesla and the entire industry to develop and implement life -saving technology, ”they said that the plaintiffs created a story”, the driver – the responsibility accepted and accepted from the first day ”.
In addition to an $ 200 million punishing prize, the jury Tesla said that a total of 129 million dollars of compensatory damage for an accident and the company should bring the total to $ 243 million.
Ban It is a big number that will send shock waves to others in the sector, Dan said Dan Ives, the financial analyst of Wedbush Securities. “It’s not a good day for Tesla.”
Tesla said it would object.
Even if this fails, the company says that the jury will pay much less than the jury decided due to a pre -trial that limits criminal damages to three floors with Tesla’s compensatory damages. Translation: $ 172 million, not $ 243 million. However, the plaintiff says his agreements are based not only on Tesla but also on most of the compensatory damage, and the given jury is the number that the company should pay.
It is not clear how much a stroke he will have on his reputation on the security of the decision in Tesla’s Miami case. In 2019, Tesla has greatly developed its technology since an accident on a dark, rural road in Florida, Florida.
However, on Thursday, the issue of trust in the company in general, including closing arguments, has emerged several times. Brett Schreiber, the chief lawyer of the plaintiffs, said Tesla’s decision to use even the term autopilot showed that he was willing to mislead people and take great risks with their lives, because the system only slowed the ribbon changes, cars and other tasks, helping the car to drive itself.
Schreiber said that other car manufacturers use terms such as “driver assistance” and “copilot” to ensure that drivers do not trust much technology.
“Words are important, Sch Schreiber said. “And if someone plays fast and loses with words, they play fast and lose with knowledge and facts.”
Schreiber, the driver George McGEE’nin flashing lights, a stop sign and 62 miles in an hour after a Tahoe’ye, the couple’s stars to take a look at the stars to a look at 62 miles neglected.
Tahoe turned so hard that he was able to throw Benavides 75 feet from the air to the nearby forests. He also left Angulo, who entered the courtroom with a loose and pillow to sit with broken bones and traumatic brain damage.
However, Schreiber said Tesla was still wrong. Tesla’nın drivers, as soon as the signs of distraction began to show the autopilot by not giving up and allowing them to use the system on smaller roads where it is not designed as it continues, he said.
Im I trusted technology a lot, Mc said McGee at some point. “I believed that if he saw something in front of the car, he would provide a warning and apply the brakes.”
In the Miami case, Chief Defense Lawyer Joel Smith warned Tesla’s drivers should keep their eyes on the road, but McGee chose not to do it while looking for a fallen mobile phone and added to accelerate. Stating that McGEE had passed at the same intersection 30 or 40 times before, and that none of these trips collapsed, Smith said that it isolated the reason for one thing: “The reason is to drop your mobile phone.”
The automobile industry is closely monitoring the case, because the fact that a driver was accepted to reckless behaviors would have significant legal risks for each company as the Tesla responsibility was increasingly directed by cars.
