In the federal court in Miami, a jury has partly convicted Tesla for a deadly 2019 accident that included the use of the company’s autopylot driver aid system. The jury honored the plaintiff $ 200 million in punitive damage, as well as “compensatory damage for pain and pain”, ” According to NBC News,
Neither the driver of the car nor the autopylot system applied timely brakes to avoid passing through an intersection, where the car hit an SUV and killed a pedestrian. The jury assigned a two-thirds of the defect to the driver, and blamed Tesla to a third. (The driver was filed separately.)
The decision comes at the end of a three -week test on the accident, killing 20 -year -old Nibel Benevides Leon and seriously injured her lover Dillon Angulo. This driver aid is one of the first major legal decisions about the technology that has gone against Tesla.
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