Imagine if they had been 100% liable...... /s
Hmmm, doing 116 in a 25.
The family, and no one else, should be paying their victims. Tesla and the mechanic have no culpability in this case, as are not the mommy and daddy of their customers. The son would’ve probably found someone to disable the device if the mechanic had declined.
I think that article has it wrong. 1% of what number is $10.5 million? I don’t see anything about a Billion dollar judgement.
Also, this will likely be appealed by Tesla.
And the passenger that this punk killed will be in line to collect some of that money from the parents?
Lots of small print through which to wade.
How much insurance did they have on the kid?
Sounds like the kid over-riding the "parental control" rather than Tesla maliciously interfering with "parental control".
“parents should have taken away the keys after his March 2018 speeding ticket for driving at 112 mph”
If the parents had knowledge of that “ticket”, they had constructive notice that the speed-limiter was not functioning or had been circumvented. They are responsible for their son’s speeding after that. I bet the ambulance chaser begged, grovelled, and cajoled the jury to hold Tesla even 1% responsible, knowing deep-pockets laws would force Tesla to pay when the deadbeats didn’t/couldn’t.
Suicidal, homicidal grifters.
Riley and Martinez, both 18, were wearing their seat belts while backseat occupant Alexander Berry, 18, was unbelted and ejected from the car.
Firefighters arrived to find the Model S fully engulfed in flames and Mr. Berry sitting on the sidewalk.
I can’t understand the mentality of wealthy parents giving or allowing their newly licensed teenagers a very fast sports car to drive. I know of several whose kids got into either expensive or serious accidents.
Though jurors found Barrett Riley 90% responsible and his father 9% responsible for the crash, it awarded James Riley $4.5 million and Jenny Riley $6 million.
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This is absurd. The parents and the kid are 99% responsible for the accident, but Telsa, with 1% responsibility, has to pay $10M. If I was Tesla, I’d appeal the case.
The party with “deep pockets” is frequently screwed over, and that is an injustice. It’s just more “take from the rich because they are rich”, and Elon Musk is the richest of the rich. The “teen” in this story was 18, a legal adult. There is no reason to hold anyone else accountable for his actions. Unless you want to blame the parents for raising an idiot son, it is 100% his fault. He (an adult) requested the speed limiter be removed, then drove recklessly and caused the death of himself and another person. He is dead, so the only accountability should be on his insurance company, not Musk and Tesla shareholders.
The parents should have just made the little speed freak walk where ever he went.
To date 38 people have been roasted in fires in Teslas.
Before the litigation epidemic started, FoMoCo was forced to stop producing its Pinto subcompact auto after “just” 27 people had died from fire-related causes after a rear impact of their car.