Tesla’s long running bet that bold branding could sell the future of driving has collided with a hard legal wall in California. A state judge has ruled that the company misled consumers about what its driver assistance systems can actually do and ordered ...

Tesla’s defence attorney argued that no driver-assistance technology available in 2019 could have prevented the crash. Credit: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock.com. Tesla has been ordered to pay $243m in a landmark lawsuit concerning a fatal crash involving ...

Tesla Inc. was told to pay $243 million in a lawsuit over a 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida that killed a young woman and seriously injured her boyfriend, the first significant court loss for the automaker in litigation related to its driver-assistance ...