Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to the news on the evening of October 24, Beijing time, the charge of death caused by advanced driving assistance of Tesla Autopilot will be heard for the first time in the United States, and the closing speech will begin on Tuesday. The outcome of this case will contribute to the formation of a national trial template for such cases.

A Tesla employee testified about Autopilot during a jury trial in a California court. The company had repeatedly asked for public secrecy, but the judge rejected that request.

According to the civil lawsuit, Tesla's Autopilot system caused the Model 3 driven by the owner Micah Lee to suddenly deviate from the highway east of Los Angeles at 65 mph, hit a palm tree and burst into flames, all in seconds.

The accident, which occurred in 2019, killed Lee and injured two other passengers, including an 8-year-old boy, who had to undergo a caesarean section in subsequent rescue, according to court documents. The passenger lawsuit against Tesla alleges that the company sold vehicles with this function knowing that there were defects in the Autopilot and other safety systems.

Tesla denied responsibility for the accident, saying Lee had been drinking before driving. The electric car maker also said it was not clear whether the Autopilot system had been activated at the time of the accident.

Tesla has been testing and launching its autopilot system and its more advanced fully autopilot (FSD) system, which Elon Musk, chief executive, says is critical to the company's future, but it has also attracted regulatory and legal scrutiny.

The company argued that there should be no punitive damages in the case. But lawyers for the plaintiffs quoted Tesla engineer Eloy Rubio Blanco (Eloy Rubio Blanco) as testifying that he admitted at the trial that Tesla knew there might be potential defects in the software on the car.

On the stand, Rubio also refuted Lee's lawyers' claim that the company chose the name "fully autonomous driving" (Full Self-Driving) in the hope that the public would think its vehicles had more functions.

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