Another Tesla in the early morning hours has and killed someone.
A release from the North Dakota Highway Patrol said the man was driving a 2021 Tesla SUV northbound on the Highway 83 bypass near the Fourth Avenue Northwest overpass in Minot just before 3 a.m. at a high rate of speed when the SUV left the roadway and crashed.
A new ruling is out, perhaps finally turning the corner for hundreds or even thousands of victims in a decades-long fraud of Tesla.
“…justice was achieved,” [the victim’s mother] Neima Benavides said.
[The victim’s boyfriend] Angulo spoke to reporters after the verdict.
“We did it for Naibel; she would be proud that we stood up and did everything in our power to help shine a light on everything that is happening with these cars,” he said.
The federal trial centered around Tesla’s Autopilot feature. Attorneys representing both families argued the company falsely marketed the feature, making consumers believe it could perform beyond its limitations. […]
The jurors found that Tesla placed the 2019 Model S on the market with a defect and that there was negligence.
A quiet airport parking lot became the scene of an unfortunate robotaxi affair on June 30th, when two unoccupied Waymo started rubbing into each other. Videos circulating on social media show how clearly the robotaxis could see each other on a clear Phoenix day.
It begs the ancient philosophical quandary, when two robotaxis collide in an open stretch of a deserted airport parking lot in a bright sunny desert with nobody inside them, does it count?
Notably there are several other Waymo sitting around the crash, so it appears to have been a “base” parking error.
These single vehicle sudden deadly veered crashes seem to only be increasing with Tesla promoting more AI.
According to ALEA, Joshua K. Leblanc was killed when the Tesla he was driving left the road, hit a guardrail and caught fire. His body was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences to be identified.
The crash happened on Hill Road near Drummond Switch Cut Off Road, just outside of Empire in Walker County.
Notably the Californian investigation of the man killed by Tesla on July 28th has been updated to mention explicitly that AI is suspected.