{"id":346778,"date":"2026-02-20T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-has-to-pay-historic-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:01:14","slug":"tesla-has-to-pay-historic-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-has-to-pay-historic-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla has to pay historic $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/tesla-has-to-pay-historic-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says.jpg\" \/>A federal judge has rejected Tesla\u2019s bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida, dealing a significant blow to the automaker\u2019s legal strategy as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits tied to its driver-assistance technology. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/02\/20\/tesla-has-to-pay-historical-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-has-to-pay-historic-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":346779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346778","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}