Elon Musk denies Tesla's Autopilot caused crash that killed grandmother

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/elon-musk-denies-teslas-autopilot-caused-crash-that-killed-grandmother/

by worik • 28 days ago

13 5 28 days ago

The trillionaire can't spare $1m. That seems like quite a small ask for a wrongful death.

after the inevitable loss of life due to a spaceflight event (everything breaks eventually), he's likely to deny that spacex had anything to do with it.

dmfdmf2• 28 days ago

I think the human "driver" of that car will be charged with at least recklessness. Even if you are in a botcar you still have ultimate responsibility for safe operation. From the vids I've seen and the damage to a brick wall it had to be going at least +60 MPH in a residential neighboorhood. If he was paying attention he would have disconnected auto mode and hit the brakes long before it crashed. He was probably on his phone at the time or asleep.

Zigurd• 28 days ago

You can take a nap in the backseat of Waymo. There isn't even a remote driver, just a remote advisor for cases where the car can't make a decision on its own,because latency and connection issues would make remote driving inherently unsafe. It has to actually work otherwise it wouldn't work at all.

In other words, there is no responsible human. That's not an excuse for Tesla. The opposite really.

dmfdmf2• 27 days ago

Good point. I don't know how liability works in the Waymo case.

Elon Musk denies Tesla's Autopilot caused crash that killed grandmother

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