It’s a little confusing, but this incident is not about self driving or software (unless the latching system is software) If anything it’s probably about the latching system or how vulnerable it is to catching fire.

We may never know the truth but I’m not sure what Tesla is at fault here for or why they would settle. Twice the legal limit for alcohol (alleged) by the driver is very bad for the plaintiff.

> We may never know the truth

That's the point. They're trying to hide something.

Sounds like that could be potentially true. Hopefully it has been fixed as that was an older version of the car.

Did you not read the article? They included info about an old case for background but this was about the Apple engineer who in 2018 was killed when his Tesla drove itself off the edge of a freeway and into a barrier at 71 mph.

That case was settled in April[1]. TFA is about the passenger in the 2016 crash

[1]https://www.ttnews.com/articles/tesla-settles-suit-autopilot

I did read this article, which is what I was commenting on. “This incident” . The article was not about the previous case even though it was referenced.

This has nothing to do with driver assist as far as I can tell? It was a drunk driver that had her foot on the gas the whole time and made no attempt to brake.

This is burying the other end of the lede: the suit is about someone who died because the car caught fire and their door couldn't be opened.

So it could be seen as an engineering shortcoming, even though the cause was someone driving drunk

Can't we sue the people who ran safety tests and regulations on the car to let it get on the road like that? Or the onus is on Tesla and this was a freak accident (manufactured wrong) they should have caught after design?

In this case, my guess is that door openings aren't regulated (unlike security belts), so it's on Tesla to design their car the sane way.

lets all do the popular thing and judge Tesla’s software reliability by a headline and the opinion of someone on the internet

Let's all just dismiss any criticism of Tesla's products and services by framing it as being specious because internet points.

Remember to do the right thing and take the bullet for the massive corporation.

> Vox Populi, Vox Dei

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1593769469741932544

Long live the popular thing /s