Tesla lost the case in Germany. Recently, according to Germany’s “Der Spiegel”, a Munich court has ruled that Tesla loses the lawsuit and needs to repay a Model X owner of 112,000 euros (about 757,100 yuan) for the purchase of the car. The reason for losing the lawsuit is that Tesla’s Autopilot function has security risks. Reports show that Teslas with the feature enabled were unable to reliably identify obstacles such as tight spots on construction sites, while “ghost braking” was also possible. Accordingly, the court ruled that this could cause “great danger” in the city center and lead to a car accident, so Tesla lost the case. While Tesla’s lawyers have argued that Autopilot wasn’t designed for urban roads, the court held that drivers couldn’t be required to manually turn the feature on and off in different environments because “it would distract from driving.” In fact, Germany is not the only one. Tesla’s Autopilot function has also been investigated in the United States. Data shows that in the past year, there have been about 400 collisions with vehicles equipped with partial automatic driving assistance systems, of which .
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