Tesla can’t duck defect trial over double-fatal 2016 wreck

Chung concluded that Tesla had failed to show that the family didn’t have – or at least could not come up with – evidence to refute the company’s version of events. — Reuters

Tesla Inc will probably have to go to trial to fight claims that a sudden acceleration defect in a Model S caused a fiery crash in Indiana that killed the driver and a passenger in 2016.

A California state judge said in a tentative ruling he was unconvinced that a review of the car’s data recorder shows the crash was all the driver’s fault.