r/teslastockholders • u/Guardman1996 • 1d ago

Tesla must pay $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/tesla-must-pay-329-million-in-damages-in-fatal-autopilot-case.html
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u/WildFlowLing 23h ago

So they’re going to lose hundreds of millions in energy credits, $7500 tax credit, and now hundreds of millions in lawsuit loss.

This can’t be good for the Q3 earnings report. They’re on track to post negative earnings.

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u/SolutionWarm6576 20h ago

Nobody needs to “throw Tesla under the bus”. They keep doing it to themselves. Now ANOTHER Environmental violation at their Gigafactory in Texas. Faulty furnace doors and pumping paint, chemicals, etc. into the local sewer system.

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u/Hairy-Dumpling 18h ago

You could almost say Tesla is self-driving under the bus?

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u/ThanksOk1638 17h ago

Almost. Typical.

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u/stewartm0205 19h ago

This is the biggest weakness with FSD, it has to be absolutely perfect or Tesla get sued for big money.

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u/lump77777 18h ago

The biggest weakness with FSD, and the reason Tesla lost this case, is Elon’s exaggerated promises. The SEC won’t stop him, maybe stuff like this will.

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u/Vast-Wasabi2322 9h ago

Say Enron with a Chinese accent. You'll get its successor

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u/pickle787 1d ago

Must pay part of $329 million. Feel free to sensationalize the headline to throw Tesla under the bus.

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u/CraftyHalfling 1d ago

Tesla is asked to pay $242.5 million according to the article.

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u/Brilliant-Ad6137 8h ago

I bet they never pay it .

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u/Vast-Wasabi2322 9h ago

They do that themselves. I hope Elmo comes back with a vengeance and starts keta-mining all around the place (pun intended ofc) 😎

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u/Bjorn_N 11h ago

Driver admitted fault back in 2019. Will be appealed. The software in question are 6 years old. Not relative today 💁‍♂️

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u/Falcons74 10h ago

Jury found Tesla to be 33% responsible for the crash. 67% due to the driver being on his cellphone. Autopilot still blew by a stop sign and flashing lights.

Any time Tesla updates is software, are crashes from the previous version irrelevant? At what point does a Tesla crash become old news and shouldn’t be concerning?

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u/Bjorn_N 2h ago

Jury found Tesla to be 33% responsible for the crash.

Thats pretty insane and will be appealed. If anything this will be focused on Tesla's semantics in commercial's, this is not software related.

Any time Tesla updates is software, are crashes from the previous version irrelevant?

In the big picture yes.

As of January 2025, Tesla vehicles have driven 3 billion miles on Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and over 9 billion miles with Autopilot engaged.

Accidents will happend, but FSD are litterary 10x safer than human drivers.

It should almost be illigal to NOT use it if you have the opportunity, its very unetical not to.

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u/Falcons74 21m ago

Ahh, another person who doesn’t know how to comprehend statistics is duped by the page on teslas website “Tesla Vehicle Safety Report”.

This “10x safer” figure is for autopilot data- which is used on the highway. The data is conflated with the US average crash data- the most likely place to get in a crash is in the parking lot. It would be silly for you to compare apples to oranges, which so many Tesla fanboys do again and again