Tesla faced a wrongful death trial linked to a 2019 crash caused by a distracted driver using Autopilot. An engineer revealed that the company didn't maintain crash records until 2018, raising compliance issues. The crash resulted in the death of Naibel Benavides Leon and injury to her boyfriend, Dillon Angulo. The driver, George McGee, settled after pleading no-contest to reckless driving. Angulo and Benavides' family accused Tesla of overhyping Autopilot's capabilities, claiming their experience felt like experimentation with unsafe technology.
"I feel like we were experimented on," Angulo told Miami's NBC affiliate back in 2023, "and this technology was out on the road before it was safe."
An engineer at Elon Musk's car company revealed during a wrongful death trial this week that until 2018, the company didn't even keep records of Autopilot crashes."
Tesla has tried to keep that deposition out of the trial centered around the 2019 Florida crash that killed 22-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon."
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