{"id":270559,"date":"2023-11-25T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-faces-potential-punitive-damages-as-judge-finds-reasonable-evidence-of-autopilot-defect-awareness\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T01:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T01:03:47","slug":"tesla-faces-potential-punitive-damages-as-judge-finds-reasonable-evidence-of-autopilot-defect-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-faces-potential-punitive-damages-as-judge-finds-reasonable-evidence-of-autopilot-defect-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla faces potential punitive damages as judge finds &#8216;reasonable evidence&#8217; of Autopilot defect awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/tesla-faces-potential-punitive-damages-as-judge-finds-reasonable-evidence-of-autopilot-defect-awareness.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/> In a significant legal development for Tesla, a Florida judge has ruled that the electric vehicle giant may face punitive damages in a case revolving around Autopilot defects. The judge found &#8220;reasonable evidence&#8221; that Tesla, including CEO Elon Musk and other executives, were aware of Autopilot flaws while marketing their vehicles as fully autonomous. This revelation could have far-reaching consequences for the company and its stance on self-driving technology.<\/p>\n<p>The case centers on the tragic death of Stephen Banner, the owner of an early Tesla Model 3, whose vehicle collided with an&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/tesla_faces_potential_punitive_damages_as_judge_finds_reasonable_evidence_of_autopilot_defect_awaren-news-2784.php\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/tesla-faces-potential-punitive-damages-as-judge-finds-reasonable-evidence-of-autopilot-defect-awareness.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/> In a significant legal development for Tesla, a Florida judge has ruled that the electric vehicle giant may face punitive damages in a case revolving around Autopilot defects. The judge found &#8220;reasonable evidence&#8221; that Tesla, including CEO Elon Musk and other executives, were aware of Autopilot flaws while marketing their vehicles as fully autonomous. This revelation could have far-reaching consequences for the company and its stance on self-driving technology.<\/p>\n<p>The case centers on the tragic death of Stephen Banner, the owner of an early Tesla Model 3, whose vehicle collided with an&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-faces-potential-punitive-damages-as-judge-finds-reasonable-evidence-of-autopilot-defect-awareness\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":270560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arenaev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281318,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270559\/revisions\/281318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}