Experts lay into Tesla safety in federal autopilot trial
10 months ago
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- A federal court in Miami is hearing a wrongful death case involving Tesla's Autopilot, marking the first federal case of its kind.
- Previous high-profile cases include the 2018 death of Walter Huang and the 2019 death of Jeremy Banner, both settled by Tesla under undisclosed terms.
- The current case involves a 2019 Florida crash where a Tesla ran a stop sign, killing Naibel Benavides and injuring Dillon Angulo.
- Dillon Angulo expressed feeling like an experiment, criticizing Tesla for releasing unsafe technology.
- Expert Missy Cummings testified that Tesla's Autopilot is defective, citing insufficient driver monitoring and a history of promoting misuse.
- Cummings detailed investigations into other fatal Tesla crashes, including Joshua Brown's death in 2016.