Tesla found a partial responsibility in 2019 Autopilot Death

Miami jury body Find Timing On Friday, the partial responsibility in a crash in 2019 was killed and injured by something – while the S -car driver was used to make the auto industry Automated pilot driver assistance feature.

The jury found Tesla responsible for 200 million dollars of punitive damage, in addition to an additional $ 43 million as compensation compensation. (Because of the laws of the state, the company may end up with a lower payment.) The jury found a third responsible for the accident; Tesla driver, who settled with the plaintiffs and witnessed during the trial, found the other two -thirds.

In a written statement, a spokesman for Tesla Jeff Makdandruz said, “The ruling is wrong.” He said that Tesla would appeal “major errors in the law and violations in the trial.”

The lawsuit arose from a crash in 2019 in the keys to Florida, where it is claimed that the Tesla driver in the status of the automated pilot had reached the level of T, and he failed to see that the road was ending, and his foot remained on the accelerator; The car criticized a parked and two people stand near. An infantry was killed, Nappel Benefides Leon, 22,; Her boyfriend, 26 -year -old Delon Angelo, was seriously injured.

Tesla’s lawyers argued that the S model was not defective and claimed that the Tesla driver was hunting for his cell phone at the time of the accident and was only responsible.

The Autopilot feature of Tesla was blamed in dozens of accidents, but this is the first time that the company is found responsible for a collision linked to encouragement. The company was not responsible in 2023 for two deadly California accidents. Several lawsuits were resolved outside the court, including one that involves a High level 2018 crash That killed the X -Silk model driver in Silicon Valley. In 2023, the National Administration for Highway Traffic Safety Tesla pushed to issue a large summons linked to the encouragement of birds After the American Safety Agency spent two years in investigating the incidents of the deadly pilot and raised concerns about the system that encourages the driver’s driver.

Separately, Tesla faced an administrative hearing in California last month after the state’s Ministry of Car Ministry filed a lawsuit against the auto maker, claiming that it had misled customers about the boundaries of the automated pilot and its latest and most advanced advantages, full self -driving (underlined). The session, which is scheduled to be dissolved later this year, can lead to a loss of a license to sell and manufacture vehicles in California for up to 30 days.

During the three -week trial of Miami, lawyers who represent the prosecutors and CEO Elon Musk have created wrong expectations between drivers about the capabilities of the automated pilot. The main lawyer Brett Shrebar was martyred at a 2016 press conference where Musk said that the Tesla vision system means that its cars “should not hit” anything – even “a strange space ship, a pile of unwanted minerals fell on the back of a truck.”

Despite marketing, Tesla’s evidence confirms that drivers need to stay on alert while using an automated pilot and prepare to take over in a moment. Tesla added more “Nags” to its system After summoning 2023 This requires drivers to pay closer attention to the road, and suspend access to the automated pilot if the system discovers a lot of attention. (After the test, consumer reports question Whether these repairs resolve the driver’s lack of attention.)

“Tesla chose to put the technology of the improved automated pilot on the ways of this society, knowing very well that the leading government agencies for transportation safety in this country … she was telling Tesla for years to make its products safer.” “For years before this accident and for years after this accident, Tesla ignored these warnings.”