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Six years ago, Walter Huang was driving his Tesla Model X to work. At a junction between two highways near San Francisco, the car drove head on into a traffic barrier. He later died from his injuries. Lawyers for his estate sued Tesla, claiming its Autopilot system malfunctioned and was the proximate cause of the crash.
On its website, the law firm representing the estate says the Autopilot system installed in Huang’s Model X was defective and caused Huang’s death. The navigation system of Huang’s Tesla misread the lane lines on the roadway, failed to detect the concrete median, and failed to brake the car, but instead accelerated the car into the median.
“Mrs. Huang lost her husband, and two children lost their father because Tesla is beta testing its Autopilot software on live…
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