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Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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Re: Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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Post by tiahura »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #4
DoesntMatter22 wrote: post #3

This will continually be appealed until it’s reduced.

This was the appeal.

No it wasn't. This was the trial judge deciding to not reduce it. $43 million in compensatory damages is unusually high for a wrongful death.

Re: Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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Post by mey »

standardUser wrote: post #10

I'm not clear on what Tesla is doing these days. They've been left in the dust on autonomous driving, they've failed to update their successful car models, and their only new model was a spectacular failure.

Ask the CEO? Based on recent incentives and acquisitions, are they planning to remain a car company?

Re: Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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Post by jeffbee »

tiahura wrote: post #11
LeoPanthera wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was the appeal.

No it wasn't. This was the trial judge deciding to not reduce it. $43 million in compensatory damages is unusually high for a wrongful death.

$43 millon does not seem spectacularly high compensation for killing someone at the age of 22.

Re: Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

xiphias2 wrote: post #7

This case will make settlement amounts higher, which is the main thing car companies care about when making decisions about driving features/marketing. With Robotaxi it will get even higher as it will be clear 100% the company's fault.

Fight Club 2.0: You pay to retrain it only if the AI will kill more people than our settlement fund can pay out.

Re: Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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Post by dekhn »

jeffbee wrote: post #14
tiahura wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it wasn't. This was the trial judge deciding to not reduce it. $43 million in compensatory damages is unusually high for a wrongful death.

$43 millon does not seem spectacularly high compensation for killing someone at the age of 22.

When my spouse worked in the area of determining "the value of an individual" (economically, not morally), it was computed as present value lifetime earnings: the cumulative income of the individual, converted back to its current value (using some sort of inflation model). IIRC, the PVLE averaged out to about $1-10M.
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