"This doesn't hold up logically unless I'm missing something, certainly the victim wouldn't be getting fined 329 millioon if it was decided to be his fault for not loooking at the road"

There was no "329 million fine"

There was a (a) 59 million compensatory damages award to the representative of the estate of the deceased and (b) 70 million compensatory damages award to her boyfriend who survived

The punitive damages were likley the result of Tesla's misconduct in deliberately concealing evidence, not its percentage of fault in causing the accident

HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787780

Why would Tesla conceal evidence. That question is left as one for the reader

Indeed, the HN commenter missed several things