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Tesla Didn’t Fix Autopilot After Fatal Crash, Engineers Say
- Company faces damning testimony as trial looms over 2019 wreck
- CEO Elon Musk has claimed Teslas are safest cars ever made
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Tesla Inc. failed to fix limitations in its Autopilot system following a gruesome Florida crash that killed a driver in 2016, company engineers said in a family’s lawsuit over a very similar 2019 fatal collision that’s headed to a jury trial.
The electric-car maker didn’t make any changes to its driver-assistance technology to account for crossing traffic in the nearly three years between two high-profile accidents that killed Tesla drivers whose cars slammed into the side of trucks, according to newly revealed testimony from multiple engineers.