Comment on Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 7 months agoI don’t know if that’s the reasoning that will hold up in court. That reasoning would apply to all cars in general wouldn’t it? Driving is potentially dangerous no matter what car you drive. People are guaranteed to die in car accidents everyday just by sheer volume and that would be true if Tesla didn’t exist.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not that people die crashing them, or even that a manufacturing/software defect causes the deaths.
It’s that Tesla knew that there was a software error that would almost certainly cause somebody to die, and intentionally chose not to address the issues for financial reasons. That’s textbook depraved indifference.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Reminds me of that cost of a recall calculation scene from Fight Club.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And that’s exactly why the depraved indifference rule exists.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are there any famous examples of that being used?