The jury didn’t like it, but it didn’t really prove anything that wasn’t already known. I’m not really sure why they did what they did in the end? It wasn’t disputed that AP was on, and that the guy overrode the saftey systems. The jury found them partially at fault because they allowed the system to operate there and because they claim it didn’t work as advertised, and it was a huge jury verdict damages they have to pay.
I have a feeling it’s going to get a reduced damages though as it goes through appeals. The dude was looking down for a phone he fumbled with his foot on the accelerator which overrides the safety systems, to the point the car warns you on screen that it will not brake while your foot is on the accelerator. And guess what… the car did not brake! Surprise!
Oh, that might have been plain old incompetence rather than deliberate evidence tampering if both sides agreed to the bits that incriminate their own side. Unless there was something more going on that the logs would have shown, like “damage detected while self-driving enabled, dispatching Tesla cleanup crew to take care of the witnesses”.
Curious: what was the outcome of them being caught doing that?
The jury didn’t like it, but it didn’t really prove anything that wasn’t already known. I’m not really sure why they did what they did in the end? It wasn’t disputed that AP was on, and that the guy overrode the saftey systems. The jury found them partially at fault because they allowed the system to operate there and because they claim it didn’t work as advertised, and it was a huge jury verdict damages they have to pay.
I have a feeling it’s going to get a reduced damages though as it goes through appeals. The dude was looking down for a phone he fumbled with his foot on the accelerator which overrides the safety systems, to the point the car warns you on screen that it will not brake while your foot is on the accelerator. And guess what… the car did not brake! Surprise!
Thanks! I would have had to go looking to remember the details
Oh, that might have been plain old incompetence rather than deliberate evidence tampering if both sides agreed to the bits that incriminate their own side. Unless there was something more going on that the logs would have shown, like “damage detected while self-driving enabled, dispatching Tesla cleanup crew to take care of the witnesses”.
It was definitely deliberate. Something happened for some reason.
Maybe they were worried about something bad being in there before they knew the facts were agreed upon, and then they had already dug their own grave?