You can hate Tesla all you like. But they have stuck their neck out an awful lot over the years to try and make a difference and advance technology in this industry, while the old stuffy big players have remained stagnant. Knowingly exposing themselves to potential criticism as they do is something most scaredy corporations run away from, and you have to respect Tesla for that even if they have major failings elsewhere.

This is still really prototype and experimental technology. It has more clear warnings than you can shake a stick at. It is not yet a legal replacement for a human driver controlling the vehicle. It does not yet absolve the driver of the vehicle from FULL responsibility of their vehicle and driving behaviour. This is made so clear when you enable the software!

This woman ignored all those cautions, took her eyes off the road completely using a phone. She did not touch the steering wheel for over a minute prior to the accident. All against the law, all against the warnings. She broke the laws of the road. She is responsible.

When people use it, then crash and then sue those people are frankly absolute morons. They damage the reputation of the technology. They slow it's introduction. They slow development and advancement that will in the end benefit everyone, without doubt.

Morons should not be allowed to litigate.

"Car data showed Lommatzsch did not touch the steering wheel for 80 seconds before the crash, "

Full autonomy is not part of the current Tesla autopilot program. Her claim that she was told otherwise is likely false. Tesla dealers are instructed to dissuade people from relying on autopilot, not persuade them to drive blind. She clearly violated the rules and suffered an unfortunate consequence. She will lose her case, but she should consider herself lucky to be alive. In most vehicles a 60 mph crash into a firetruck would result in instant death.

exactly, they keep passsing the buck to the human driver, when its a serious AI issue, either its a auto driven car that does not need human interaction or just leave cars the way they are driven by HUMANS, this cross driving experience is JOKE, its funny to see people defending this AI garbage, with its the womans fault, NO its the companies fault and the AI's fault for not being properly tested long term, instead as normal, they forgo all the risk to push it along fast, just like they did with mobile phones and wirelss signals and damge these cause to people and the enviroment

That's not wind you're blowing, it's hot air. You're pointless comment wasn't needed but alas, you decided to provide it anyway.

It's actually idiotic drivers behind the wheel of machines that can cause harm to others that are not needed (like the woman in this article as a good example)