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Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict (arstechnica.com)
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A representative for Tesla sent Ars the following statement: "Today's verdict is wrong and only works to set back automotive safety and jeopardize Tesla's and the entire industry's efforts to develop and implement life-saving technology. We plan to appeal given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial. Even though this jury found that the driver was overwhelmingly responsible for this tragic accident in 2019, the evidence has always shown that this driver was solely at fault because he was speeding, with his foot on the accelerator—which overrode Autopilot—as he rummaged for his dropped phone without his eyes on the road. To be clear, no car in 2019, and none today, would have prevented this crash. This was never about Autopilot; it was a fiction concocted by plaintiffs’ lawyers blaming the car when the driver—from day one—admitted and accepted responsibility."

So, you admit that the company’s marketing has continued to lie for the past six years?

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[–] BangCrash@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure millions of people have been killed by cars over the last 100 years.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And we're having less and less deadly injured people on developed countries (excluding the USA, if the statistics are correct I've read).

Tesla's autopilot seems to be a step backwards with a future promise of being better than human drivers.

But they slimmed down their sensors to fucking simple 2D cams.
That's just cheaping out on the cost of Tesla owners - but also of completely uninvolved people around a self driving Tesla, that didn't take the choice to trust this tech, that's living more on PR, than actual results

[–] BangCrash@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Can't comment specifically about Tesla's but self driving is going to have to go through the same decades of iterative improvement that car safety went through. Thats just expected

However its not appropriate for this to be done at the risk to lives.

But somehow it needs the time and money to run through a decade of improvement

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Cars, yes, driven by humans. But not by AI bullshit.