A jury in federal courtroom in Miami has discovered Tesla partly accountable for a deadly 2019 crash that concerned using the corporate’s Autopilot driver help system. The jury awarded the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages, together with “compensatory damages for ache and struggling,” according to NBC News.
Neither the motive force of the automobile nor the Autopilot system braked in time to keep away from going via an intersection, the place the automobile struck an SUV and killed a pedestrian. The jury assigned the motive force two-thirds of the blame, and attributed one-third to Tesla. (The motive force was sued individually.)
The decision comes on the finish of a three-week trial over the crash, which killed 20-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon and severely injured her boyfriend Dillon Angulo. It’s one of many first main authorized choices about driver help expertise that has gone towards Tesla.
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