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Re:Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial by rayiner on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:30PM (#40507342)
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.
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Re:Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial by BoorishBears on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:48PM (#40507482)
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

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Re:Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial by seoulmetro on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:02PM (#40507593)
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?
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Re:Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial by orwin on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:31PM (#40507806)
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.
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