{"id":11715,"date":"2023-09-29T02:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/tesla-trial-begins-over-whether-experimental-autopilot-caused-drivers-death\/"},"modified":"2023-09-29T02:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:38:59","slug":"tesla-trial-begins-over-whether-experimental-autopilot-caused-drivers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/tesla-trial-begins-over-whether-experimental-autopilot-caused-drivers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla trial begins over whether \u2018experimental\u2019 autopilot caused driver\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit claims company knowingly sold defective car that led to Micah Lee\u2019s 2019 death while Tesla blames \u2018classic human error\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer representing victims of a fatal Tesla crash blamed the company\u2019s autopilot driver assistant system, saying that \u201ca car company should never sell consumers experimental vehicles,\u201d in the opening statement of a California trial on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The case stems from a civil lawsuit alleging that the autopilot system caused the owner of a Tesla Model 3 car, Micah Lee, to suddenly veer off a highway east of Los Angeles at 65 mph (105 kph), where his car struck a palm tree and burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/28\/tesla-lawsuite-autopilot-system-fatal-car-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aee7da13a367669c911a1e0d9c9a3886536eed72\/0_296_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=27d2397da861399f68c05e74791c356c\" title=\"Tesla trial begins over whether \u2018experimental\u2019 autopilot caused driver\u2019s death\" \/>Lawsuit claims company knowingly sold defective car that led to Micah Lee\u2019s 2019 death while Tesla blames \u2018classic human error\u2019<br \/>\nThe lawyer representing victims of a fatal Tesla crash blamed the company\u2019s autopilot driver assistant system, saying that \u201ca car company should never sell consumers experimental vehicles,\u201d in the opening statement of a California trial on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe case stems from a civil lawsuit alleging that the autopilot system caused the owner of a Tesla Model 3 car, Micah Lee, to suddenly veer off a highway east of Los Angeles at 65 mph (105 kph), where his car struck a palm tree and burst into flames. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit claims company knowingly sold defective car that led to Micah Lee\u2019s 2019 death while Tesla blames \u2018classic human error\u2019 The lawyer representing victims of a fatal Tesla crash blamed the company\u2019s autopilot driver assistant system, saying that \u201ca car company should never sell consumers experimental vehicles,\u201d in the opening statement of a California trial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/tesla-trial-begins-over-whether-experimental-autopilot-caused-drivers-death\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tesla trial begins over whether \u2018experimental\u2019 autopilot caused driver\u2019s death<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}