The lawsuit continues: “Gabriol thought the car was a safer driver than a human and relied on it to perceive and react to traffic in front of him based on representations he heard from Musk.”
According to the lawsuit, Giovanni was operating his Tesla north on Interstate 680 at around 4 a.m. last year, just after Valentine’s Day, with Caleb in the passenger seat and Autopilot turned on.
According to the complaint, a fire engine was stationed diagonally across two lanes of traffic in the distance, its emergency lights flashing.
To reroute approaching vehicles away from the scene of an accident. According to the report, two California Highway Patrol cars and a second fire truck were also there, and they were all equipped with emergency lights.
According to the complaint, the car abruptly broadsided the first fire engine as the brothers were traveling down the street and collided with it at a high rate of speed.
The lawsuit goes on to say that Giovanni was passively sitting in the driver’s seat with the “Autopilot” option turned on at the time of the incident rather than actively operating the Subject Vehicle.
