Overview

• The eight-person Miami federal jury found Tesla one-third responsible for the April 2019 Key Largo crash involving a Model S on Enhanced Autopilot.
• Jurors awarded $129 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages to the estate of Naibel Benavides Leon and survivor Dillon Angulo.
• Plaintiffs contended Tesla oversold Autopilot’s capabilities, failed to geo-restrict its use beyond highways, and initially withheld critical crash data.
• Tesla’s defense argued that driver distraction, not a software defect, caused the collision and that users received proper warnings about Autopilot’s limitations.
• Tesla plans to appeal the ruling as its Autopilot technology faces mounting legal and regulatory challenges, including ongoing NHTSA investigations.