{"id":604410,"date":"2026-02-20T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:32:14","slug":"tesla-loses-bid-to-overturn-243m-autopilot-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604410\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A judge has denied Tesla\u2019s request to overturn a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/29\/tesla-challenges-243-million-verdict-in-autopilot-death-trial\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$243 million jury verdict<\/a> that held the automaker partially responsible for a fatal crash involving its Autopilot driver assistance system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of trial and in their briefings on summary judgment \u2014 arguments that were already considered and rejected,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-19-order-dckt-612_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hon. Judge Beth Bloom\u2019s decision<\/a> reads. \u201cFurthermore, Tesla does not present additional arguments or controlling law that persuades this Court to alter its earlier decisions or the jury verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last August, a jury awarded a $243 million verdict <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/01\/tesla-partly-liable-in-florida-autopilot-trial-jury-awards-200m-in-damages\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Tesla<\/a> over its culpability in a 2019 fatal crash in Florida that killed\u00a0Naibel\u00a0Benavides and\u00a0critically injured Dillon Angulo.\u00a0The jury assigned the driver two-thirds of the blame, and attributed one-third to Tesla. Notably, the jury assessed punitive damages only against Tesla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla\u2019s lawyers argued, in its request to reverse the ruling, that the blame rested on the driver, who helped cause the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has denied Tesla\u2019s request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict that held the automaker partially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":604411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7830,64,76124,339,7829,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-604410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-autopilot","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-evs","11":"tag-in-brief","12":"tag-tesla","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116105336919508474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}