The family says the Tesla car was on Autopilot and instead of recognizing the lanes, detecting the median and breaking the car, it accelerated
SAN FRANCISCO – The family of a man killed in a fiery wreck last year while driving his Tesla along U.S. route 101 in California is suing the electric vehicle maker, alleging wrongful death and negligence stemming from failures and false promises of its Autopilot driver-assistance system.
“Mrs. Huang lost her husband, and two children lost their father because Tesla is beta testing its Autopilot software on live drivers,” B. Mark Fong, a partner at Minami Tamaki LLP, one of the firms representing the family, said in a statement. “The Huang family wants to help prevent this tragedy from happening to other drivers using Tesla vehicles or any semi-autonomous vehicles.”
The family is also suing the state of California, alleging the state department of transportation failed to replace a crash attenuator guard after a crash of a Toyota Prius 11 days earlier, a component that would have better absorbed the impact of the high-speed collision. Tesla attributed the severe damage, which it described as unprecedented for the Model X, to the lack of an attenuator guard.
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