A wrongful death lawsuit filed over the death of Edgar Monserratt Martinez in a Florida Tesla Model S crash has ended as jury members were being chosen for the trial.
The 2018 Tesla crash occurred after driver Barrett Riley, 18, had already been ticketed for driving 112 mph in a 50 mph zone. And on a separate occasion his parents caught him driving nearly 100 mph. Additionally, witnesses reported seeing him driving recklessly on empty parking lots.
However, his parents still allowed him to drive the Model S, but they asked Tesla for help in limiting the top speed of the car to 85 mph. A Tesla service center did activate a speed limiter on the Tesla, but Barrett took the vehicle back to Tesla and asked for …
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