{
  "id": 17551675,
  "title": "Crime: The Tesla Experiment with Autonomous Driving",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/crime-das-tesla-experiment-mit-dem-autonomen-fahren",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-01T06:37:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/audio/crime/crime-das-tesla-experiment-mit-dem-autonomen-fahren/100266390.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "A Tesla Model S with Autopilot enabled crashed in Key Largo, Florida, killing 22-year-old Naibel Benavides in April 2019. A jury in Miami awarded $243 million in damages in August 2025. The case is featured in the documentary \"Elon Musk Uncovered – Das Tesla-Experiment\" by Andreas Pichler, which draws on the Tesla-Files, a cache of internal data leaked to Handelsblatt in 2022. The data includes thousands of customer complaints about issues with Autopilot and sudden acceleration. The Dutch authority RDW approved Full Self-Driving in Europe in April 2026, but the software is not compatible with around four million older Teslas.",
  "summary": "Nothing is as important to Tesla as mastering autonomous driving, says Elon Musk. A new documentary shows just how far the company is from that goal – and who is paying the price.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}