Judge Tesla Order to pay $ 243 million for a fatal 2019 accident involving his autopilot

Tesla’s American technology company was found some mistakes by federal judges in Miami for a deadly 2019 collision that used autopilot driver assistance technology.

The corporation owned by the technology billionaire Elon Musk was ordered by the verdict, which was handed down on Friday, to pay $ 243 million to the survivors and relatives of the victims.

The jury found that although most drivers had to be blamed, Tesla technology was also very responsible for the deadly events that occurred six years ago.

Brett Schreiber, the main lawyer for the plaintiff in this case, said in a statement that Tesla designed an autopilot “only for the controlled access road but deliberately chose not to limit the driver from using it elsewhere, with Elon Musk who said that the autopilot of the world drove better than humans.”

“Tesla’s lies turn our way into a test track for their fundamental disabled technology, placing Americans everyday like Naibel Benavides and Dillon Angulo on the way of danger,” Schreiber said. “Today’s verdict represents justice for the tragic death of Naibel and Dillon’s lifetime injury, asking for Tesla and Musk accountability for sustaining trillions of corporate dollars with hype self-driving at the expense of human life.”

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Tesla, in a statement, said that his party plans to appeal the verdict “Given the substantial error of law and deviations at the trial.”

“Today’s decision is wrong and only functions to restore automotive safety and endanger Tesla and all industrial efforts to develop and implement live life technology,” the company wrote. “For more details, there is no car in 2019, and there is no today, which will prevent this accident. This is never about autopilot; it is a fiction made by the plaintiff’s lawyer blames the car when the driver – from the first day – which is accompanied and accepted responsibility.”

George McGee is driving a Tesla model S on the autopilot on Key Largo, Florida, in April 2019. He is suspected of losing focus when looking for a dropped cellphone, and his vehicle crashed into a chevrolet tahoe that was parked after turning through a stop and blinking lamp.

While standing next to their parked SUV, Naibel Benavides Leon who was 22 years old and his girlfriend, Dillon Angulo, was very injured in a collision.