Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

We are all paying these large verdicts through higher product costs, lower salaries, lower stock market returns, and higher insurance rates.

I’m not usually an apologist, and I’d agree with this judgement if the car was left to its own devices, but the driver of the car held his foot on the accelerator which is why it blew through those stop signs and lights.

In regards to the autopilot branding, would a reasonable person expect a plane on autopilot to fly safely if the pilot suddenly took over and pointed it at the ground?

This case will make settlement amounts higher, which is the main thing car companies care about when making decisions about driving features/marketing.

With Robotaxi it will get even higher as it will be clear 100% the company's fault.

Tesla Apologists: The judge/jury agreed that Tesla was "Full Self Driving" all the way to the scene of the crash.

This is 0.005 of what musk allegedly have ? He might be sad

I'm so lost. The guy decided to pick up the phone from the floor while driving the car at high speed.

1. It could be ANY car with similar at that time auto steer capabilities. 2. Why the hate , because of some false promise ? Because as of today same car would save the guy in exact same situation, because FSD now handles red lights perfectly. Far better and safer vs ANY other tech included in the avg car price of same segment ( $40-50k).

Will this have any effect on other companies developing self driving tech? It sets a very high precedent for fines, and may discourage companies from further working on such tech.

Good

It seems clear that "autopilot" was a boisterous overclaim of its capabilities that led to people dying.

It may be minorly absurd to win founder-IPO-level wealth in a lawsuit, but it's also clear that smaller numbers don't act as an effective deterrent to people like Elon Musk.

Tesla would benefit from the board replacing the CEO. It's increasingly clear that there is a problem and it's not talent, it's decision-making.

I'm not clear on what Tesla is doing these days. They've been left in the dust on autonomous driving, they've failed to update their successful car models, and their only new model was a spectacular failure.

Unsafe at any speed.

It's crazy that they weren't reeled in by a regulator and it had to make it all the way through the court system. People are dead. A court judgement can't change that. Preemptive action would have.

> Tesla also claimed that references to CEO Elon Musk’s statements about Autopilot during the trial misled the jury....

> The company essentially argued that references to Elon Musk’s own public claims about Autopilot, claims that Tesla actively used to sell the feature for years, were somehow unfair to present to a jury. Judge Bloom was right to reject that argument.

Of course, since Elon Musk has lied and over-promised a lot about Tesla's self-driving technology. It's an interesting defense to admit your CEO is a lair and can't be trusted.

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This will continually be appealed until it’s reduced.