Tesla Partly Liable In Florida Autopilot Trial, Jury Awards $200m Punitive Damages

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A assemblage successful national tribunal successful Miami has recovered Tesla partially to blasted for a fatal 2019 clang that progressive nan usage of nan company’s Autopilot driver assistance system. The assemblage awarded nan plaintiffs $200 cardinal successful punitive damages, on pinch “compensatory damages for symptom and suffering,” according to NBC News.

Neither nan driver of nan car nor nan Autopilot strategy braked successful clip to debar going done an intersection, wherever nan car struck an SUV and killed a pedestrian. The assemblage assigned nan driver two-thirds of nan blame, and attributed one-third to Tesla. (The driver was sued separately.)

The verdict comes astatine nan extremity of a three-week proceedings complete nan crash, which killed 20-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon and severely injured her fellow Dillon Angulo. It’s 1 of nan first awesome ineligible decisions astir driver assistance exertion that has gone against Tesla.

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Sean O’Kane is simply a newsman who has spent a decade covering nan rapidly-evolving business and exertion of nan proscription industry, including Tesla and nan galore startups chasing Elon Musk. Most recently, he was a newsman astatine Bloomberg News wherever he helped break stories astir immoderate of nan astir notorious EV SPAC flops. He antecedently worked astatine The Verge, wherever he besides covered user technology, hosted galore short- and long-form videos, performed merchandise and editorial photography, and erstwhile astir passed retired successful a Red Bull Air Race plane.

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