Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict

A justice has denied Tesla’s petition to overturn a $243 cardinal assemblage verdict that held the automaker partially liable for a fatal clang involving its Autopilot operator assistance system.

“The grounds for alleviation that Tesla relies upon are virtually the aforesaid arsenic those Tesla enactment distant antecedently during the people of proceedings and successful their briefings connected summary judgement — arguments that were already considered and rejected,” Hon. Judge Beth Bloom’s decision reads. “Furthermore, Tesla does not contiguous further arguments oregon controlling instrumentality that persuades this Court to change its earlier decisions oregon the assemblage verdict.”

Last August, a assemblage awarded a $243 cardinal verdict against Tesla implicit its culpability successful a 2019 fatal clang successful Florida that killed Naibel Benavides and critically injured Dillon Angulo. The assemblage assigned the operator two-thirds of the blame, and attributed one-third to Tesla. Notably, the assemblage assessed punitive damages lone against Tesla.

Tesla’s lawyers argued, successful its petition to reverse the ruling, that the blasted rested connected the driver, who helped origin the crash.