Tesla’s Autopilot is under scrutiny in a rare jury trial

Tesla in a trial in Miami today, in the event that Elon Musk is accused of responsibility in a fatal collision that includes the automated pilot. The driver’s naming system has been scrutinized in the past due to a number of deadly accidents, but Tesla rarely faced the trial of a jury on the issue of whether Ofilot was wrong because of the death of someone.

The trial comes in a particularly fraught moment for Tesla, which is currently progressing with its plan to introduce robotics to more cities. The company is also witnessing a violent reaction for months for its hard right and its work with the Donald Trump administration.

Autopilot, which can control the guidance and brake functions, as well as make automatic changes in the corridors while they are on some highways, are subject to an increase in audit by federal organizers. It was in the center of many lawsuits, some of which settled Tesla and others were rejected.

The concerned case includes a dark driver of the Tesla and two boys’ model who were outside the stars late at night. Naibel benavides, 20, was killed in 2019 when the George McGe S to the Stop SUV is next to T-Interction. McGe used Autopilot, but he dropped his phone and was mysterious at the time of the accident. Benefids and her friend Delon Angelo, who was seriously injured, were standing outside the SUVs when McGe plowed from Tesla.

The case, which is heard in the American boycott court of the southern region of Florida, was submitted by Angelo and the Benavids family.

Tesla plans to say that the company is not wrong because Autopilot was not fully controlled in the car at the time of collapse, citing data that shows that McGe exceeds the driver’s help by pressing the accelerator at the time of the accident. Also, Tesla has long argued that drivers are responsible when accidents include a automated pilot. On its website, the company says its driver assistance systems “require active supervision of the driver and not make the car independent.”

Prosecutors will argue that the regime bears some responsibility for its failure to warn the driver that the accident was imminent. The car ignored a stop mark before the collapse, and the braking in the automatic emergency cases should have succeeded even if the autopilot was not operated.

However, it will be difficult for the plaintiffs to persuade the jury that Tesla was wrong. In cases of liability of cars in Florida, the standard is “whether the car manufacturer has shown a reckless ignorance of human life equivalent to wrong killing through the design and marketing of the car,” the court notes.

In fact, in another case related to disruption in 2019, Tesla was found that was not responsible for the death of the model owner 3 whose car was crashed while driving in the automated pilot. In another case, the jury ruled against the plaintiff, Justin Hassa, who filed a lawsuit against Tesla after her car was hit as a mediator while using the automated pilot.

Tesla has managed to avoid the deadly incidents of its products for a long time. The company was forced to issue many recovery operations after a federal investigation into dozens of accidents that include Tesla vehicles with the automated pilot, but it was not charged criminally.

In 2023, Musk laughed at a question from investors about whether his company would accept legal responsibility for its self -driving vehicles in the future. “There are many people who assume that we have a legal responsibility,” according to the ruling on lawsuits. “

However, the incredibly high risk for Tesla – but again, when are they not? The accumulated judge in the Florida case has spent that the prosecutors may request punitive compensation from Tesla. Because Tesla refused to impose geographical borders on the automated pilot, despite the evidence that the regime was not equipped to deal with some situations, the judge said that the jury could be reasonably governed against Tesla.

“A reasonable jury can find that Tesla acted with a reckless ignorance of human life in order to develop its products and increase profit.”