2023-04-22 12:44:00
Sued by a driver following her car invaded a street corner, Tesla won last Friday (21) the action in which it was accused of failure in the autopilot system of one of its vehicles. The result might guide similar cases that are running in American justice.
Justine Hsu, a resident of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States, sued Elon Musk’s company following her car, a Tesla Model S, swerved into a construction site while Autopilot was on. Thanks to the crash, the car’s airbags were activated, causing a fracture in Hsu’s jaw, the loss of a tooth, and damage to nerves located in his face..
With the allegation of defects in the autopilot system and in the airbag, the author of the lawsuit asked for more than US$ 3 million in compensation – more than R$ 15 million in direct conversion.
In response, Tesla has denied responsibility for the accident. and stated that the user used the autopilot mode within the city, although the vehicle manual discourages this type of use.
After a 3-week trial, where 3 Tesla engineers were heard, the superior court of the city of Los Angeles gave a verdict that the company was not guilty of the accident, and that in addition to the contraindicated use of Autopilot in the city by Hsu , the airbags did not fail to work reliably.
With the closure of the case, specialists say that the action may guide similar processes and even indicate how future cases will be, but that it will not necessarily be decisive.
“When there are fatalities involved and on highways, the jury’s perspective can be different,” said Raj Rajkumar, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Despite having won the process, Tesla’s future is still uncertain, as people may end up realizing that embedded technology is still far from making the company’s cars fully autonomous – even if Elon Musk has been promising this for years.
Currently, Tesla cars have three autopilot modes, with Autopilot, mentioned in the article, being the most basic among them.
none of the modes it is completely autonomous. They they differ, basically, for the additional price when purchasing the vehicle, costing more than U$$ 10,000, and the level of autonomy, with the promise for the future of being able to take passengers from one point to another without any intervention from the driver .
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