Merick Lewin, managing partner at Good Guys Law. Courtesy photo. This month, a jury verdict in Miami—holding Tesla partially liable for a fatal crash involving its Autopilot system—has the potential ...

When Tesla announced Autopilot back in 2014, it was quite an ordeal. Some people reacted with admiration and awe, with a deep ...

Tesla’s new Autopilot safety report shows crashes rising for a third straight quarter. Tesla claims Autopilot users are nine times less likely to crash than unassisted drivers, but that’s down from ...

A Miami jury has ordered Tesla to pay $243 million over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida after a hacker sipping on a Venti-size hot chocolate at a local Starbucks uncovered key vehicle data ...

A Tesla engineer admitted in court that Tesla didn’t maintain Autopilot crash records before 2018, 3 years after launching the ADAS system, in a trial over the death of a bystander in a crash ...

MIAMI — A critical voice took the stand Wednesday in the first-ever federal jury trial involving Tesla’s Autopilot system: a safety expert who says the technology is defective and promoted in ways ...

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