The case is the first suit related to fatal crashes involving the electric vehicle company’s Autopilot system to go to trial.

Lawyers for the plaintiff argue the autopilot should have warned the driver and braked when his Model S blew through flashing red lights, a stop sign, and a T-intersection at nearly 70 miles an hour

Elon Musk has never liked Tesla being identified as purely a carmaker — and now he could distance the company even further from its automobile heritage with a deal to invest in his AI startup xAI. Why it matters: Musk is proposing that Tesla help back xAI,