A judge has found “reasonable evidence” that Elon Musk and other executives at Tesla knew that the company’s self-driving technology was defective but still allowed the cars to be driven in an unsafe manner anyway, according to a recent ruling issued in Florida.
Palm Beach county circuit court judge Reid Scott said he had found evidence that Tesla “engaged in a marketing strategy that painted the products as autonomous” and that Musk’s public statements about the technology “had a significant effect on the belief about the capabilities of the products”.
The ruling, reported by Reuters on Wednesday, clears the way for a lawsuit over a fatal crash in 2019 north of Miami involving a Tesla Model 3. The vehicle crashed into an 18-wheeler truck that had turned on to the road into the path of driver Stephen Banner, shearing off the Tesla’s roof and killing Banner.
I think you need protected ways where no people or non autonomous vehicles may enter. Shy of that, I think you’re right.
Yes it’s called the entire public road system. Alpha test your product on your own roads!
That’s the point. The road system has cyclists and pedestrians that these cars like to kill.
Yes but when you said sounded like we needed to make protected ways. It should be them making protected ways.
