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Tesla Fined $243 Million By Florida Jury In Autopilot Crash Lawsuit
Monday, Aug 04, 2025 - 12:05 PM
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Tesla shares responsibility for an accident involving its vehicle’s Autopilot system, and must pay $243 million as compensation, a jury from the District Court, Southern District of Florida, said in an Aug. 1 verdict.
The case stems from a collision involving a 2019 Tesla Model S equipped with automatic driving features, in which Tesla’s Autopilot allowed the car to “navigate without driver input,” according to a June 30 court document.
The incident took place on April 25, 2019, when George McGee, the driver and owner of a 2019 Tesla Model S, slammed into a parked Chevrolet Tahoe, which then went on to strike two individuals—Naibel Benavides Leon and Dillon Angulo. While Leon died in the accident, Angulo suffered “significant injuries.”
Subsequently, Leon’s representative and Angulo filed separate lawsuits against Tesla, which were eventually consolidated into a single lawsuit in March 2024. Out of the four charges laid out in the lawsuit, the court allowed two product liability claims against Tesla to move forward—defective design and failure to warn.
On Aug. 1, a Florida jury agreed that Tesla placed the 2019 Model S in the market “with a defect which was a legal cause of damage” to the victims, according to the verdict form.
They found that there was negligence on the part of driver McGee as well, which was also a legal cause of damage to Leon and Angulo.
Tesla was assigned 33 percent of the accident’s responsibility by the jury, with McGee sharing 67 percent.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/tesla-fined-243-million-florida-jury-autopilot-crash-lawsuit
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