US EditionHacker exposes Tesla over key evidence in fatal crash while car was in Autopilot: Report
Tesla challenges a $243 million verdict in a fatal 2019 Florida crash involving its Autopilot, arguing driver recklessness was primary cause; jury assigned 33% liability to Tesla.
- A Florida jury awarded $243 million to victims partially blaming Tesla for a 2019 autopilot crash that killed Naibel Benavides Leon and injured Dillon Angulo.
- The crash occurred when driver George McGee dropped his phone, causing the Tesla to miss a stop sign and crash into a parked SUV near the victims.
- Tesla initially claimed it could not locate critical crash data but a hacker named @greentheonly retrieved the data, which Tesla later acknowledged had been lost due to clumsy handling.
- The jury awarded $129 million in compensatory and $200 million in punitive damages aiming to deter Tesla, while Tesla has appealed and requested the verdict be overturned or reduced.
- The case highlights ongoing legal and regulatory debates over responsibility in self-driving crashes and calls for clearer government oversight of autonomous driving technology.
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Hacker exposes Tesla over key evidence in fatal crash while car was in Autopilot: 'It was obvious the data was there'
An anonymous hacker well-versed in Tesla technology played a crucial and previously unreported role in helping plaintiffs achieve a massive $243 million verdict against the EV maker, The Washington Post reported. Although Tesla initially claimed that it could not locate vital data about a crash that killed one person and severely injured another, the hacker was able to retrieve the data from a chip that had been recovered from the Tesla involve…
A hacker was able to extract important data on a Tesla crash from a vehicle's chip without major problems. For years Tesla had claimed that the data could not be found. The discovery led to a 243 million dollar judgment. (Continue reading)
Tesla Had Fatal Crash Recording, but Only Disclosed It After a Third-Party Hacker Recovered a Copy From the Car – Pixel Envy
Earlier this month, Tesla was penalized by a jury when a car’s supervised autonomous vehicle features failed, leading to a collision. When I linked to the CBS News article about the story, this was one of several paragraphs that stood out to me: The most important piece of evidence in the trial, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers, was an augmented video of the crash that included data from the Autopilot computer. Tesla previously claimed the …
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