Tesla Claimed to Have Lost Key Evidence in Wrongful Death Suit, Right up Until a Hacker Found It

Tesla said, “No data here” … Oopsie

👨🏻‍⚖️ Tesla said, “No data here” … Oopsie: Tesla told a jury there was absolutely no data showing what happened in a 2019 Autopilot crash that killed 22-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon and left her boyfriend, Dillon Angulo, seriously injured. Then a hacker in a Starbucks found the so-called “missing” evidence, and it was game over. The jury hit Tesla with a $243 million verdict. The post Tesla said, “No data here” … Oopsie appeared first on Kom…

Tesla Said It Didn't Have Key Data During The $243 Million Autopilot Crash Trial - Then A Hacker Recovered It

A Miami jury has hit Tesla with a massive $243 million verdict after a 2019 crash in Key Largo, and the case turned on data the company claimed it didn’t have. The twist came when a well-known Tesla hacker, @greentheonly, managed to recover the missing information from the car’s Autopilot computer while sitting in a […] The post Tesla Said It Didn’t Have Key Data During The $243 Million Autopilot Crash Trial – Then A Hacker Recovered It appeared…

Hacker accesses crash data against Tesla in $243m ruling

A Tesla Model S, while on “Autopilot”, crashed into a parked truck, killing one and injuring another. Tesla claimed in a lawsuit that the data about the crash could not be found. So lawyers for the plaintiffs tried a different route. For the Washington Post, Trisha Thadani and Faiz Siddiqui report: That’s when they turned to hacker greentheonly, who had a robust social media following for his work recovering data from damaged Teslas and posting …

Tesla claimed to have lost key evidence in wrongful death suit, right up until a hacker found it

This key evidence has resulted in a historic ruling against the company—though Tesla is appealing the verdict.