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Tesla asked a court on Friday to throw out a $243 million verdict by a jury that found the company’s self-driving software had contributed to a crash on a Florida road in 2019 that killed one person and severely injured another.
Lawyers for Tesla argued in a motion that the judgment was excessive and Tesla’s software was not to blame for the death of Naibel Benavides, a 22-year-old college student, and the injuries to Dillon Angulo, her boyfriend, who was 27 at the time of the accident.
The verdict in a trial that ended this month was a significant…
