A jury in Miami declared Tesla liable for a 2019 fatal crash that killed Naibel Benavides Leon and injured her boyfriend, Dillion Angulo. The incident occurred when a Tesla Model S collided with the couple while they were next to their parked vehicle. The jury held Tesla partly responsible due to the Autopilot system's failure, asserting it was not restricted to controlled-access highways despite being designed for them. The company was ordered to pay $243 million, including $200 million in punitive damages. Tesla plans to appeal the ruling, claiming the driver was solely to blame.
Tesla was found partly responsible for a crash in which a woman was killed and her boyfriend injured due to failures in its Autopilot technology.
The jury ordered Tesla to pay $243 million to the family of the deceased victim after ruling the Autopilot system contributed to the incident.
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