Tesla lawyers are asking the judge to pay a ruling of $ 243 million, saying that the mention of Elon Musk has misled the jury.

The deposit in the Miami Federal Court seeks to turn A prize of 243 million dollars After a 22 -year -old student was removed from the stars in the air until her death through a fugitive Timing Equipped with the features of the MUSK automatic pilot for years. A jury earlier this month found that Tesla Rapid driver was often tolerated, but Tesla was also responsible for wrong technology.

The case has been closely monitored by auto manufacturers to develop fully self -driving features. They are afraid that they will create the risks of tremendous responsibility if the jury bodies in the future decide to review accidents that car makers bear the blame even when drivers act recklessly.

The company said in the deposit: “If the ruling is allowed to park, innovation will calm down, harm road safety and invite future jury bodies to punish manufacturers who bring new safety features to the market.”

Tesla also argues that opposition lawyers “led the jury” by providing “very harmful but unrelated evidence” that indicates that Tesla has concealed or lost the video and data that, after being dug by the opposition side, helped to re -create the wrong moments before the accident. Tesla said she made a mistake not to provide evidence earlier and did not deliberately.

Musk has seized a great opportunity by allowing the case to trial in a pivotal moment of its electric car company. He is trying to persuade the Americans that the technique of self -driving, which has improved since the 2019 accident, can be trusted amid ambitious plans Robotax Tesla launched a driver without a driver Throughout the country.

Several similar cases were rejected against Tesla or were settled by the company before going to trial.

The lawyers of the plaintiffs in the court revealed last week that they told Tesla that they were ready to accept $ 60 million to settle. But Tesla refused. In the end, the jury decided the compensatory and punitive damage of the Naibel Benavides family and her friend, Delon Annu, which amounts to four times this amount.

On Friday, Tesla requesting the judge was awarded a new trial, or to get rid of the award or at least reduce it significantly.

The jury saw that Tesla took great responsibility because its technology failed, although the driver had admitted that he was wrong to divert his attention from his mobile phone. The driver settled separately with the Benavides and Angulo family. Tesla said that technology has nothing to do with shattering.

Prosecutors’ lawyers also said that the decision of Tesla even using the term automated pilot showed that he was ready to mislead people and carry great risks with their lives because the system only helps drivers with corridors changes, slowing the car and other tasks, and reducing driving the car itself.

They said that other car manufacturers use terms such as “driver help” and “Copilot” to ensure that drivers do not depend much on technology.

European organizers complained about the Tesla Word options for the drivers assistance program, and they raised questions about whether to mislead drivers as well. Musk told investors last year that it is expected to obtain approval from these organizers to obtain a more advanced version of Autopilot in March, but still awaiting green light.

This is the advantage of helping the advanced driver, which Musk calls full driving, has also drew a scrutiny in us because of their misleading drivers. A California administrative judge hears an issue in which he is Government cars administration seeks to withdraw the Tesla license To sell cars partially because of what you say misleading names.

“I have trusted technology too much,” the driver said in her crash in Florida, George McGi, in his testimony. “I thought that if the car saw something in front of it, it would provide a warning and the brakes apply.”

The main defense lawyer in the Miami case, Joel Smith, replied that Tesla warns the drivers that they should keep their eyes on the road and live on the wheel, but McGy chose not to do this while looking for a mobile phone, adding to the danger by speed.

Tesla’s share decreased by approximately 3.5 % on Friday, after a decrease in one day when Sales numbers from Europe I showed car buyer still avoid Tesla. The company was subjected to provinces and protest early in its year after the adoption of the right -wing politicians of the extremist.

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