A federal court in Miami began considering Monday whether Elon Musk's car company should share blame for the death of a stargazing university student after a runaway Tesla sent her flying 75 feet through the air and severely injured her boyfriend.

Lawyers for the plaintiff argue that Tesla’s driver-assistance feature called Autopilot should have warned the driver and braked when his Model S sedan blew through flashing red lights, a stop sign and a T-intersection at nearly 70 miles an hour in the April 2019 crash. Tesla lays the blame solely on the driver, who was reaching for a dropped cell phone.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I believe the Hummer EV is around 9,000lbs.

    We were just at Pearl Harbor and the submarine on display there had batteries weighing in at 450,000lbs and that only propelled it for ~100 miles depending on the speed. The diesel engines could propel it for 18,000 miles before refueling. This was of course 1940s technology.