$42 million, not $42
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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was gonna say.. came here like 
Understandable. But it doesn’t seem impossible these days, either.
Thx bruh.
Okay folks, here's the financial breakdown.
Total compensatory damages, covering actual harms (tangible and intangible): $129 million. Punitive damages: $200 million. Sum: $329 million.
Punitive damages are capped at 3x compensatory damages, but that's not a factor here because it's less than 2x.
Tesla was assigned 33% of the blame. The driver is 67% to blame.
That gives Tesla a bill of ($129 million * 33%) + ($200 million), because the punitive damages were assessed against Tesla only. Total Tesla payout: $242 million.
The driver is liable for the rest: $87 million. Plaintiffs will presumably be able to extract a tiny fraction of that from insurance.
Thank you. That headline is horrible.
Tesla’s FSD— Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Really wonder how many lawyers Musk had to fire before they named it Full Self-Driving^tm