Tesla responds to a lawsuit that followed a Washington Post investigation suggesting the company’s ‘Full Self Driving’ feature potentially played a role a deadly crash.
Nora Bass holds a wedding photo of her and husband at her home in Westville, Ohio. SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla filed a response Thursday disputing a wrongful death lawsuit from the wife of a Tesla employee killed in a fiery 2022 crash. The initial suit seeking damages from Tesla was filed last month in the U.S. District Court in Colorado and alleges that the company sold the employee a defective car and exaggerated the capabilities of its assisted driving features.
linked to the most advanced driver assistance technology offered by the company. After Tesla initially declined to comment on The Post’s reporting, CEO Elon Musk later wrote in a post on X that von Ohain did not have the Full Self-Driving feature downloaded onto his car, without providing evidence for that claim.
In previous cases filed against Tesla, the company has said it is not liable for the crashes or deaths all give drivers a false sense of confidence about taking their eyes off the road, or getting behind the wheel after drinking. In the suit filed by Bass, her lawyers argue that if the technology “operated properly, the vehicle would not have veered off the road, collided with a tree, burst into flames, and Hans Von Ohain’s gruesome and painful death would have been avoided.”
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