frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

https://electrek.co/2026/02/20/tesla-has-to-pay-historical-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says/
49•jeffbee•1h ago

Comments

jqpabc123•1h ago
Tesla Apologists: The judge/jury agreed that Tesla was "Full Self Driving" all the way to the scene of the crash.
dekhn•8m ago
If I read the article it says autopilot, not FSD.
DoesntMatter22•33m ago
This will continually be appealed until it’s reduced.
LeoPanthera•25m ago
This was the appeal.
DannyBee•19m ago
No it wasn't, it was a motion to set aside the verdict, made before the trial judge.

The appeal will go to the 11th circuit.

tiahura•17m ago
No it wasn't. This was the trial judge deciding to not reduce it. $43 million in compensatory damages is unusually high for a wrongful death.
jeffbee•13m ago
$43 millon does not seem spectacularly high compensation for killing someone at the age of 22.
dekhn•4m ago
When my spouse worked in the area of determining "the value of an individual" (economically, not morally), it was computed as present value lifetime earnings: the cumulative income of the individual, converted back to its current value (using some sort of inflation model). IIRC, the PVLE averaged out to about $1-10M.
DannyBee•19m ago
They claim have a pretrial agreement to reduce it to 3x compensatory damages (which would make the total judgemnet 160 million instead of 243 million).

Appealing is expensive because they have to post a bond with 100% collateral, and you pay for it yearly. In this case, probably around 8 million a year.

So in general its not worth appealing for 5 years unless they think they will knock off 25-30% of the judgement.

Here it's the first case of it's kind so i'm sure they will appeal, but if they lose those appeals, most companies that aren't insane would cut their losses instead of trying to fight everything.

josefritzishere•23m ago
Tesla would benefit from the board replacing the CEO. It's increasingly clear that there is a problem and it's not talent, it's decision-making.
dolphinscorpion•21m ago
Their stock would crash to $10 without the hype machine
xiphias2•21m ago
This case will make settlement amounts higher, which is the main thing car companies care about when making decisions about driving features/marketing.

With Robotaxi it will get even higher as it will be clear 100% the company's fault.

1970-01-01•5m ago
Fight Club 2.0: You pay to retrain it only if the AI will kill more people than our settlement fund can pay out.
standardUser•19m ago
I'm not clear on what Tesla is doing these days. They've been left in the dust on autonomous driving, they've failed to update their successful car models, and their only new model was a spectacular failure.
mey•14m ago
Ask the CEO? Based on recent incentives and acquisitions, are they planning to remain a car company?
blinding-streak•15m ago
Unsafe at any speed.
1970-01-01•2m ago
Too true. Just a few days ago it was determined it was unsafe at 0 speed. I'm not joking: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...
WalterBright•5m ago
It's an absurd judgement.

Consider also how many lives have been saved by the autopilot.

Be careful what you wish for.

palmotea•3m ago
> It's an absurd judgement.

> Consider also how many lives have been saved by the autopilot.

> Be careful what you wish for.

How many? Tell me.

Performance of Deep Material Networks for Multiscale Material Modeling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07192
1•PaulHoule•15s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Skills – Making AI coding tools aware of government standards

https://anneschuth.nl/en/2026/02/20/skills/
2•aschuth•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Segspec (CLI) K8s NetworkPolicies from App Configs (Go)

https://github.com/dormstern/segspec
1•dormstern•2m ago•0 comments

German Grooms, Irish Brides: How Immigrant Communities Married into Each Other

https://www.points-of-entry.com/p/marriage-and-the-melting-pot-part-2
1•CGMthrowaway•3m ago•0 comments

Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic (2016)

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
1•laurex•4m ago•0 comments

Michael Abrash's Zen of Assembly Language (1990)

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-zen-of-asm
1•tosh•4m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos...
1•nobody9999•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLMWise – Compare, Blend, and Judge LLM Outputs from One API

https://llmwise.ai/
1•dm118•5m ago•0 comments

Do We Need a Programming Language Built Just for AI Agents?

https://app.writtte.com/read/43JMxH9
1•lasgawe•5m ago•0 comments

From Software Guilds to Software Factories

https://wjgilmore.com/articles/goodbye-software-guilds-hello-software-factories
1•wjgilmore•7m ago•0 comments

Five Memorable Books About Programming

https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Warden

https://github.com/getsentry/warden
1•jshchnz•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Together, multiplayer drawing chat room

https://together.tldraw.com/
1•steveruizok•9m ago•1 comments

ClawDuck

https://www.clawduck.com/
1•vandanaTalentR•9m ago•0 comments

A collection of scripts to modernize CLI file management

https://github.com/terpinedream/Bashd
1•terpinedream•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An offline-first ski analysis app

1•skicoachapp•11m ago•0 comments

The Most Important Decisions Are Non-Technical

https://prog21.dadgum.com/137.html
1•tosh•11m ago•0 comments

Wisdom of the Crowd: How Network Topology Distorts Collective Perception

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17146
1•Anon84•12m ago•0 comments

7-Eleven bets on Australian stores to show it can grow globally

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/19/companies/seven-eleven-australia/
1•mikhael•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Locational Variable Theory – An informational framework for physics

https://github.com/TobeyStar/LVT-Theoretical-Physics-Information-Space
1•TobeyStar•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Vibe coded iOS workout app with Apple Watch support

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitwit-ai-personal-trainer/id6757002413
3•avsavani•16m ago•0 comments

Stateful Agents and Basic Memory

https://www.danielcorin.com/posts/2026/stateful-agents/
2•danielcorin•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SQL Query Optimizer

https://github.com/SubhanHakverdiyev/OptimizeQL/blob/main/README.md
1•hura17•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is the current adoption scenario for background coding agents?

1•daemon_9009•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: LobsterHelper – Managed OpenClaw on Firecracker VMs

https://lobsterhelper.com
1•alex_trekkoa•17m ago•0 comments

Parallel AI Agents That Review My Code (Claude Code Setup)

https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-02_code-reviews-claude-subagents
1•kurinikku•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Manifestinx-verify – offline verifier for evidence bundles (drift)

https://github.com/OneInX/Manifest-InX-EBS
1•oneinx•19m ago•0 comments

Photopea-Online Photo Editor

https://www.photopea.com/
3•whatisabcdefgh•20m ago•0 comments

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2r6jqm042o
5•penguin_booze•20m ago•0 comments

Facebook is absolutely cooked

https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
55•npilk•22m ago•46 comments