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by Kirby64 993 days ago
Not exactly sure how this is possibly going to go in favor of the plaintiffs here. It's pretty clear these are Level 2 driving techs and the driver is always responsible (which is reiterated constantly when you enable it). The only gotcha is it somehow they convince a jury that Tesla is being grossly negligent ... which would be quite the high bar to cross. Maybe they could argue that specific car was defective in some way, but I doubt it would be applicable to all cars.

My guess is this is going to settle before a verdict and we'll never hear about it again.

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> My guess is this is going to settle before a verdict and we'll never hear about it again.

IMNAL, but I’d guess that at settlement would only be with this plaintiff and have no bearing on next time someone dies while using Autopilot.