- According to Bloomberg News, Elon Musk is being asked to serve as a witness in a trial involving Tesla’s autopilot.
- Jeremy Banner died in a car accident In 2019, he was driving his Tesla Model 3.
- According to court documents, according to Bloomberg News, the trial is expected to take place in January.
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Lawyers have listed Tesla CEO Elon Musk as a potential witness in the trial to determine whether the company’s autonomous driving system is responsible for the fatal car accident in 2019. Bloomberg First report.
Jeremy Beren Banner, 50, died in March 2019 When his Tesla Model 3 crashed Drive into the tractor trailer at a speed of 109 km/h. According to the subsequent National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report, Banner activated the autopilot approximately 10 seconds before the collision. Banner’s family sued the electric car company, accusing it of negligence and death.
Autopilot is a feature that allows Tesla vehicles to automatically steer, accelerate, and brake.it Won’t let them be completely autonomous.
Insiders saw that the lawyer representing Banner’s family included Musk on the list of trial witnesses submitted on October 28.
According to Bloomberg News, court documents show that the trial is expected to take place in January.
According to Bloomberg News, Tesla’s lawyers may refuse Musk to testify in court.
Previously, according to Bloomberg News, the company’s lawyers persuaded the judge in charge of the trial to reject the Banner family’s request to remove Musk during the pretrial collection of evidence.
Neither Tesla nor the lawyer representing the Banner family immediately responded to Insider’s request for comment.
The NTSB report on the collision found that when Banner’s car hit the tractor trailer, “the vehicle did not detect the driver’s hand on the steering wheel.” According to the report’s investigation results, Tesla said that after activating Autopilot, Banner “Immediately remove your hands from the steering wheel”, saying that this violated its instructions to the driver.
At least two other drivers died while using Tesla’s Autopilot, including an Apple engineer, Walter Huang, In 2018, and Joshua Brown In 2016.
