The lawsuit stems from the 2019 death of Jeremy Banner, 50, who died when his Tesla Model 3 crashed into the underside of a semi-trailer truck crossing a Florida highway. The case is scheduled to g…
that blames Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot for a fatal crash, a Florida judge said.
The company’s nearly trillion-dollar valuation is partly built on Musk’s championing of autonomous driving as the way of the future. The Banner family claims Tesla didn’t fix Autopilot so it would shut down in dangerous circumstances despite a similar accident at a traffic crossing in 2016 that killed another Florida man who had engaged the technology.
Lytal argued at a March 10 hearing that Musk’s deposition is central to the dispute because only he can answer the question of why Tesla would “allow this dangerous technology to be used on a roadway where the car knows it’s going to fail.” But Lytal told Keyser at the hearing that none of the Tesla engineers could answer why the company ignored warnings from government safety regulators and others to stop marketing Autopilot as a technology “with full self-driving capability when it wasn’t.”
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