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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by trog on Friday August 01, 2025 @10:10PM (#44764366)
From what bits I've seen of the trial, at least a chunk of it was devoted to the meaning of the word "autopilot". Tesla even brought in a linguist to argue their case: https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3lunfw2s2is...
Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by MBCook on Friday August 01, 2025 @11:19PM (#44764654)
Makes sense. If you’re Tesla’s lawyer you need to do whatever you can to try to prove the name wasn’t a promise of functionality it didn’t meet.