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Per the lawsuit, 37-year-old Micah Lee was driving his Tesla Model 3 on a highway outside of Los Angeles at 65 miles per hour when it turned sharply off the road and slammed into a palm tree before catching fire. Lee died in the crash. The company was sued for $400 million plus punitive damages by Lee\u2019s estate and the two surviving victims, including a boy who was 8 years old at the time and was disemboweled in the accident, according to an earlier report from Reuters<\/ins><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that Tesla sold Lee defective, \u201cexperimental\u201d software when he bought a Model 3 in 2019 that was billed to have full self-driving capability. The FSD system was and still is in beta. In his opening statement, their attorney Jonathan Michaels also said that the \u201cexcessive steering command is a known issue at Tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s defense argued that there was no such defect, and that an analysis cited by the plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers identifying a steering issue was actually looking for problems that were theoretically possible. A fix to prevent it from ever happening was engineered as a result of that analysis, according to the company. Tesla blamed human error for the crash, pointing to tests that showed Lee had consumed alcohol before getting in the car, and argued that there\u2019s no certainty Autopilot was in use at the time.<\/p>\n

The jury ultimately found there was no defect, and Tesla was cleared on Tuesday. Tesla has faced lawsuits over its Autopilot system<\/ins><\/a> in the past, but this is the first involving a fatality. It\u2019s scheduled to go on trial for several others in the coming months, and today's ruling is likely to set the tone for those ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"