A Florida Man Is Suing Tesla for a Scary Autopilot Crash
...during his daily drive from his home in Winter Garden to his job at a Nissan dealership in Fort Pierce, Florida. Driving at about 80 mph in the left lane of the Florida Turnpike, with Autopilot engaged, Hudson crashed into a disabled, empty Ford Fiesta.....
...According to the lawsuit, filed in Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, Hudson “suffered severe permanent injuries.” Those include possibly fractured vertebrae, Hudson’s lawyer Mike Morgan, of Morgan & Morgan, said during the press conference.
The suit seeks $15,000 in damages (Morgan & Morgan did not immediately reply to a request to confirm that unexpectedly conservative number is correct) and accuses Tesla of negligence, breach of implied warranty or fitness for a particular purpose, and violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, among other things.
It also names the owner of the disabled Fiesta as a defendant, accusing him of negligence.