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Wellbeing doesn't have a price tag. There's no amount of money someone could pay you to make up for your daughter dying early or your son becoming disabled.

However, $329M sounds like an imaginary amount of money in a liability claim. If this guy crashed into a parked car without Tesla being involved, the family would be unfathomably lucky to even get 1% of that amount.



Perhaps the driver would have acted differently if Tesla hadnt sold him a product called "autopilot."


But if it was called 'lane assist' or 'adaptive cruise' he might not have bought the car in the first place.


I agree. If Tesla was not allowed to give their product a misleading name, it probably would get fewer sales. That's the rationale behind false advertising laws.


Indeed. So they called it autopilot and then this accident happened and that's the reality we're actually living in now.


Typically you need better evidence than "perhaps" to walk out of court with millions.


I'm not an attorney, but I think typically juries operate on the "reasonable person" standard.


Yes that's why the court heard testimonies from linguistics experts etc.


The supreme court has ruled on punitive damage awards going back to the 1990s and limited the excesses. You can't for example get $4 million in punitive damages on $4000 in actual damages. The general rule from the looks of the article is 5x actual damages.

https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/punitive-d...


Most of that $329 million is punitive, not compensatory.




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