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Updated: April 20, 2026 @ 1:28 pm
Editor,
I can’t believe that the family of Mr. Haung who was not paying attention to the road is thinking of suing Tesla over their Autopilot ( “Tesla fatal crash victim’s family look at legal options” in the April 12 edition of the Daily Journal). When did common sense and responsibility for driving become the responsibility of the car makers?
When you get a drivers license it becomes your responsibility to know and obey the rules of the road. It is also your responsibility to control that vehicle when you get behind the wheel. It is not the car’s!
Cars are just a convenient tool to get from point a to point b. They don’t go to work and put in eight hours, they don’t go to the store and shop for dinner and they don’t pay the bills. They are a tool to be used by competent minds.
If people want hands-off driving then take a cab or hire a chauffer. It sounds cruel but let’s be honest, if the man was paying attention he would have never had that accident that killed him. It wasn’t the car’s fault it was the fault of an irresponsible driver not paying attention, thinking that he didn’t have to. What was he thinking?
Let’s get real here, get behind the wheel and drive or get a chauffer.
Joe Caprioni
San Carlos
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There is another side to this and is all about our most litigious society forces or affects topic
Early career in people movers (mainly ski lift controls) had our firm leave that industry because of the silly to us…lawsuits by folks injured because of ‘their own’ decisions. Courts and juries allowed huge awards against the equipment providers. Even enforcing ‘new’ safety laws on old product…that was up to code when they were installed
Trust is a key component of our society. Trust that the OEM has taken into account most all possible scenario’s of usage…provided all warnings, etc, etc
The courts know that those warnings (manual, signage, labels, buzzers, etc) are NOT typically read by the user…but…protect the OEMs up to a level if they met or exceeded the required warnings in manuals, signage, labels, etc
Having said that, am on the side of the user in this case. There are too many design issues and this should NOT have been allowed to move into a Beta Test level (outsiders or representative user testing). It is still a laboratory level product, not ready for public testing
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