A Florida jury has ordered Tesla to pay US$243m in damages after finding its Autopilot software partially responsible for a 2019 crash that killed a 22-year-old woman, marking the first wrongful death verdict against the automaker's self-driving technology. The Miami federal court awarded US$129m in compensatory damages, atop which Tesla must pay US$200m in punitive damages.
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