US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unfortunately even an astronomical sum like this is still in “slap on the wrist” territory for a company that size. This is for a single incident, though, not class action. So it could be a valuable precedent in actually forcing them to act more responsibly for fear of more meaningful consequences.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is significant if they actually pay it, it’s a drop in the bucket for their market capitalization, but as to the actual money they have it’s a very large amount, they don’t make that much money it’s all imaginary stock prices not earnings.

    I’m sure they will appeal it until they get it cancelled.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They have 44b in cash and 6.2b in free cash flow in 2025.

      They make plenty of money.

      They’ve paid off almost all their debt as well

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  • totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Building on what you said, I think that the sum is actually pretty significant if you think of it as being roughly $100 million per person, and then multiply by the number of people hurt by the supposed “Autopilot” who now have incentive to sue.

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      people hurt by the supposed “Autopilot”

      I thought these cases were all regarding incidents with the FSD package and not autopilot? The autopilot (in Tesla) is just TACC and lane-assist, the “advanced” autonomous features that actually steer the car is all in FSD.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s about 6% of net profit according to some websit.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nice.

  Musk = POS Nazi.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t even care if the autopilot was at fault or not in this case. I’m just here to say fuck that guy!

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    • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Indeed

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• BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wow! That sounds like TRILLION DOLLAR Behavior!

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• UncleArthur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s the point of such court cases when the loser cab simply appeal and appeal and appeal? It’s a stupid system.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are limits to appeals. Each appeal up the chain requires that court to agree to hear the challenge of the appeal. Depending on the jurisdicion, I think the limit would be only 3 or 4 appeals with that last one being the Supreme Court of the United States. If the next higher court declines to hear the appeal, the lower courts ruling stands.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Appeals aren’t an infinite thing. Each appeal goes to a higher court, and eventually will reach the SCOTUS. And at any point, the respective appellate court can refuse to accept the appeal, essentially saying that they agree with the lower court’s ruling and leaving it in effect.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You are describing the courts like how they are supposed to work, not how they work. They are biased in favor of the powerful. Whether the law was applied correctly doesn’t matter so much as who is the company appealing, and perhaps what consideration they can provide under the table.

      It’s a lot more corrupt than you would lead us to believe here, courts by and large think the republic is already dead in all but name, the higher up the chain you go the more that’s true.

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