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The Tesla Autopilot lawsuit floodgates are open, lawyer who beat Tesla is going for round 2In this case, a Tesla vehicle on Autopilot hit a pickup truck on the highway, killing fifteen-year-old Jovani Maldonado, who was a passenger in the pickup truck. His father was driving him back home from a soccer game.
This crash also occurred in 2019, but it is only now being brought to trial. The legal process takes time, and we are only now beginning to see the legal repercussions of crashes involving Tesla Autopilot, as well as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system.
With more vehicles in the Tesla fleet and more mileage using ADAS features, crashes involving those features increased significantly between 2020-2025. This means more legal trouble for Tesla.
Schreiber claims to have an even stronger case with Maldonado v. Tesla. In the Benavides case in Florida, the “Autopilot defect” part of the case was more about the fact that the driver shouldn’t have been able to use the system on non-highway roads.
In the Maldonado case, the crash occurred on the highway, where Autopilot is intended to be used, but it didn’t stop for the pickup truck in front of it.
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