[Starman_Jones]

The original judgement held that the driver was 2/3 responsible, Tesla 1/3 responsible, which seems reasonable. The $243 million wasn't for causing the accident, but was a punitive amount for doing things that looked an awful lot like lying to the court and withholding evidence.

[carefree-bob]

This makes a lot of sense and makes the verdict seem reasonable, thanks for providing the context.