Tesla's $243 Million Autopilot Verdict Reveals a Glaring Flaw
An unusual aspect of this case, Benavides v. Tesla, was that the driver admitted he was at fault, having sped through a stop sign while searching for a dropped cellphone, killing Naibel Benavides Leon and seriously injuring her boyfriend as they stood next to their parked SUV. The jury did indeed blame the distracted driver but assigned him only two-thirds of that blame. The rest was laid on Tesla. Not only must it pay its share of compensatory damages to the victims, amounting to about $43 million, but also $200 million of punitive damages.
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