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Experts lay into Tesla safety in federal autopilot trial


In 2019, a speeding Tesla using Autopilot ran a stop sign and hit two stargazers.

In this case, in April 2019, a Tesla being driven by George McGee sped through a stop sign in the Florida Keys and struck Naibel Benavides and Dillon Angulo, who were standing near their car and stargazing. Phatak's deposition told the court that the company did not keep good track of Autopilot crashes prior to 2018, and Cummings pointed out that "it was clear they knew that they had a big problem with people ignoring the warnings. Singer noted that he was "not aware of any published study, any reports that are done independently... where [Tesla] actually had raw data and could validate it to see does it tend to make sense" and that the car company was not comparing like with like.

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