Tesla held partially liable for 2019 fatal autopilot crash
A jury in Miami has determined that Tesla should be partially responsible for a deadly 2019 autopilot accident, and that the deceased should compensate for the family and a wounded salvation of $ 329 million.
Tesla’s payment is based on compensatory damage of $ 129 million and a penalty of $ 200 million against the company.
The jury determined that Tesla should be held 33% responsible for the deadly accident. This means that the automobile manufacturer will be responsible for compensatory damage of approximately $ 42.5 million. In such cases, criminal damages are typically limited to three layers of compensatory damage.
CNBC lawyers’ lawyers said on Friday, the criminal damages were only evaluated against Tesla, the car manufacturer expects to pay $ 200 million and total payments to bring to approximately 242.5 million dollars, he said.
Tesla said he plans to object to the decision.
For the plaintiffs, lawyers asked the jury to damage a total of $ 345 million. The hearing in the southern region of Florida began on July 14th.
The dress, Key Largo, Florida’daki a deadly accident to shoulder around the crime around. A Tesla owner named George McGee used the model S electric sedan to use the company’s advanced automatic pilot, a partial automatic driving system.
Driving, McGee dropped his mobile phone and mixed it to get it. During the hearing, he said he believed that the advanced autopilot would brake if he were on his way to an obstacle. The model S accelerated at a junction slightly more than 60 miles per hour and hit a nearby parked car and its owners standing on the other side of their vehicles.
Naibel Benavides, 22 years old, died at the scene of the injuries in the accident. The body was discovered about 75 meters away from the point of effect. His boyfriend Dillon Angulo survived, but he had more than one broken bone, traumatic brain damage and psychological effects.
“Tesla designed only for controlled access highways, but intentionally chose not to restrict the use of drivers somewhere, as well as Elon Musk, as well as the world autopilot for the plaintiffs.” He said. “Tesla’s lies have essentially transformed our paths into test tracks for their flawed technologies, and damaged daily Americans such as Naibel Benavides and Dillon Angulo.”
Following the decision, the plaintiff’s families hugged each other and their lawyers, and Angulo was a “visible emotional” while embracing his mother. According to NBC.
Here is Tesla’s response to CNBC:
“Today’s decision is wrong and only to take back automotive security and endanger Tesla and the efforts of the whole industry to develop and implement life.
Although this jury found that the driver was responsible for this tragic accident in 2019, the evidence has always shown that this driver was only wrong, his foot accelerated on the accelerator, like Rummonged for the phone, where he fell on the road without his eyes. To be open, there was no car in 2019, and today none could prevent this accident.
This was never about autopilot; It was a fiction that accused the car when he appealed and accepted by the plaintiff’s lawyers – from the first day. “
The decision is trying to persuade Tesla’s CEO Musk, investors’ company can return to a leader in autonomous vehicles, and that self -inpatient systems are safe enough to operate Robotaxis fleets on public roads in the United States.
Tesla shares fell 1.8% on Friday and now fell by 25% for the year, the biggest decline between Tech’s Megacap companies.
The decision may constitute a precedent for a lawsuit against Tesla. Approximately one dozen active cases focus on similar allegations that contain events that were used just before a death or a crippled accident-driving (controlled) of the FSD of Otopilot or Tesla.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched an investigation into possible safety defects in Tesla’s autopilot systems in 2021. During this investigation, Tesla made changes, including a number of air software updates.
The agency then opened a second probe, evaluating whether the “recall remedy” was effective in order to solve the problems related to the behavior of Tesla’s autopilot, especially around fixed first intervention vehicles.
NHTSA also warned Tesla that social media broadcasts can be misleading to think that their vehicles may function as robotaxis, but the owners say guides, cars needed a practical steering and steering and braking driver.
A site following Tesla collisions, Tesdeaths.comTesla drivers just before the effect of autopilot of the events caused by at least 58 deaths reported.
Read the decision of the jury below.
