{"id":32243,"date":"2025-07-21T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32243"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:26:24","slug":"tesla-driver-testifies-autopilot-failed-to-prevent-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32243","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Driver Testifies Autopilot Failed to Prevent Fatal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The driver gave testimony in a federal trial about Tesla\u2019s role in a 2019 accident that killed a woman in Florida.<\/p>\n

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The driver of a Tesla car that killed a woman in 2019 testified in federal court on Monday that the company\u2019s Autopilot driver-assistance system had failed to warn him of an impending accident or engage the brakes.<\/p>\n

The driver, George Brian McGee, was driving his new Tesla Model S on a dark, two-lane road in South Florida when his phone fell to the floor and he bent to find it. That\u2019s when he failed to see that the road was ending in a T intersection and that a sport utility vehicle was parked on the other side, with two people standing next to that car.<\/p>\n

Neither he nor Autopilot hit the brakes, and the Tesla crashed into the S.U.V. at 62 miles per hour, killing a 22-year-old woman and gravely injuring her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

In a civil case in federal court in Miami, Mr. McGee said on the witness stand that he was responsible for keeping his eyes on the road even with Autopilot engaged. But he also said he had been relying on Tesla\u2019s semi-automated driving system to serve as his co-pilot, and thought it had the ability to avoid such a crash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI thought it would assist me if I made a mistake,\u201d said Mr. McGee, 48, a partner in a Florida private equity firm. \u201cIt didn\u2019t warn me of the car and the individuals and hit the brakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case, in the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida, was filed by the family of the woman killed in the crash, Naibel Benavides, and her companion, Dillon Angulo. The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages from Tesla and aim to convince the jury that Tesla was partly responsible for the crash.<\/p>\n

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The driver gave testimony in a federal trial about Tesla\u2019s role in a 2019 accident that killed a woman in Florida.The driver of a Tesla car that killed a woman in 2019 testified in federal court on Monday that the company\u2019s Autopilot driver-assistance system had failed to warn him of an impending accident or engage the brakes.The driver, George Brian McGee, was driving his new Tesla Model S on a dark, two-lane road in South Florida when his phone fell to the floor and he bent to find it. That\u2019s when he failed to see that the road was ending in a T intersection and that a sport utility vehicle was parked on the other side, with two people standing next to that car.Neither he nor Autopilot hit the brakes, and the Tesla crashed into the S.U.V. at 62 miles per hour, killing a 22-year-old woman and gravely injuring her boyfriend.In a civil case in federal court in Miami, Mr. McGee said on the witness stand that he was responsible for keeping his eyes on the road even with Autopilot engaged. But he also said he had been relying on Tesla\u2019s semi-automated driving system to serve as his co-pilot, and thought it had the ability to avoid such a crash.\u201cI thought it would assist me if I made a mistake,\u201d said Mr. McGee, 48, a partner in a Florida private equity firm. \u201cIt didn\u2019t warn me of the car and the individuals and hit the brakes.\u201dThe case, in the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida, was filed by the family of the woman killed in the crash, Naibel Benavides, and her companion, Dillon Angulo. The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages from Tesla and aim to convince the jury that Tesla was partly responsible for the crash.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32245,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32246,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions\/32246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}