SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal court denied judgment to Tesla, which was sued for misrepresentation by a family whose loved one was killed after his Tesla’s partially automated driving system, Autopilot, failed and caused the car to crash into a parked fire truck. The name “Autopilot” is plausibly misleading, as were “Musk’s statements that Autopilot was ’probably better’ than a human driver and that autonomous driving was ‘basically a solved problem.’”
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