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The family of the victims had alleged that the company hid the malfunction in the autopylot system and also abolished data and video footage before and after the accident.
Ilon Musk’s company will have to pay a compensation of $ 243 million (about Rs 2,100 crore) in an accident case of Tesla’s auto drive car. The Miami Court of Florida has also given this order in the trial that lasted for 4 years responsible.
The case is of 2019, when the accident occurred in Tesla’s autopylot system in Largo, Florida. The Tesla model S sedan hit a SUV due to the system malfunction. 22 -year -old Nibel Benvids died in the accident and his boyfriend Dillon Angulo was seriously injured.
In the case, the company said that the driver was busy running the phone. But the court did not accept this argument. The court said that Tesla’s system was poor and the responsibility of the accident was not just the driver.
22 -year -old Nibel Bennavides died in the accident, while his boyfriend Dillon Angulo was seriously injured.
What happened in Tesla Autopylot Crash Case
- In 2021, the family of the victims filed a case against Tesla. The family alleged that the company hid a malfunction in the autopylot system and also abolished the data and video footage before and after the accident.
- The case lasted from 2021 to 2025. During this time Tesla continued to settle most of such accidents or dismissed in court.
- Tesla tried to hold the driver responsible in front of the jury in Miami’s Federal Court, but the victims’ lawyers remained adamant on the malfunction of the autopylot system. Finally, Tesla obeyed the malfunction in the car, but dismissed the allegations of hiding the evidence.
Tesla considered court decision wrong
Tesla has considered the court’s decision to compensate in the accident case wrong. Tesla said,
Today’s decision is wrong. With this, efforts to push only motor vehicle safety back, Tesla and the entire industry’s lifestyle technology can be endangered. Those who filed the trial have created a story in which the car is convicted, while the driver took the responsibility of the accident on the first day.
How does Tesla’s Autopylot feature work?
- Autopylal means running the car without the help of the driver. Autopylot technology works based on many different inputs. For example, it is connected to direct satellite for location and map. Where to go to the passenger, it is selected in the map. This is followed by selection of root.
- When the car runs on autopylyt mode, it also gets input from the camera around the car along with the satellite. That is, there is no object in front of or in front of or back, right or left. When an object is, the car is left-right or stops.
- The car also consists of many sensors, which help to keep the car in a road-lane and read the signal. In autopylyt mode, the car speeds up to 100 km per hour. However, in this technique, many times the sensors stop working, which causes an accident.
