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Paul Walker's daughter Meadow, 17, 'awarded $10.1 million settlement as driver Roger Rodas found partly to blame for fatal car accident'
Daughter of late Fast & Furious star granted previously undisclosed court settlement in 2014
Driver Rodas was deemed 'partly to blame' for the fatal accident
Court recently cleared car manufacturer Porsche of fault in the deaths
Rodas' widow was suing claiming defects caused the crash and will now appeal the verdict
Meadow Walker has a similar lawsuit pending which her lawyers will continue to press
I don't think they should be able to prevail in a lawsuit against Tesla.
But it does demonstrate from this account of what was happening at the crash site, that some new regulations might be necessary on Tesla in how they design the battery pack. i.e. Battery cells kept exploding long after impact hurling projectiles at people, and lithium fires are horribly difficult to put out.
so what rationale does the father think the Tesla killed his daughter? I don't understand high performance cars. thanks!
The father said:
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"This is a vehicle that travels from 0 to 60 in 3.1 seconds. She's clearly having to swerve to miss a vehicle going the wrong way on a one-way street," Speckman said.
"If her foot should happen to hit the accelerator, it's like a rocket ship. I don't know why they have to make a car that does that."
Basically, his argument is that the car is too fast and that all cars should be legally required to go slow and not have that sort of acceleration.
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Originally Posted by jtab4994
Those lithium batteries explode just like gasoline. Who knows if a gasoline-powered car would have exploded?
Hmm, a large tank of highly flammable liquid? I wonder. The question is moot because the daughter died of blunt force trauma from the crash, she was already gone during the subsequent fire. Must have been a hell of a crash.
I feel for the father losing his daughter, but I question the wisdom of supporting a ban on fast cars because people with close to three times the legal blood alcohol level drive them too fast and crash them.
Don't drink and drive period. It would have happened if she was driving a Corolla. I smell a money hungry idiot who just cannot accept the fact that his daughter is an idiot and ruined other peoples lives...
Don't drink and drive period. It would have happened if she was driving a Corolla. I smell a money hungry idiot who just cannot accept the fact that his daughter is an idiot and ruined other peoples lives...
Well, the father's argument (which I think is bull**** BTW) is that a Corolla, not being capable of doing 0 to 60 in 3.1 seconds, wouldn't have been capable of crashing at such a high velocity as the Tesla was. And that further, as a result, were it a Corolla and not a Tesla she was driving, she'd be alive still. And he's probably correct. I find that a terrible argument for banning performance cars, however.
imho even with the stop and go action of the very bad quality video you can tell the tesla was going 2 or 3 times faster than the wrong direction car .. speed killed them .. not how fast the car was capable of ...and yes even a corolla will do 100 .. mine will ...
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I hope that some greasy lawyer doesn't get involved and takes Tesla to court. Tesla makes a really neat product that is making strides in electric vehicles and a court case could slow them down.
Tesla has insurance for this purpose. However I do not think it can slow them down. There is no way they could get any slower.
The only one to blame is his drunken daughter. She was almost THREE times the legal limit! She's lucky she didn't kill someone else....oh wait she did....There was a passenger that SHE KILLED. She is RESPONSIBLE! Not Tesla. The car was not on auto pilot. She was driving and she was about as drunk as you can be.
While it's sad that a father lost a daughter, perhaps he should have taught her about the perils of drunk driving. Clearly, she had no regard for anything else on earth by drinking so much and then driving.
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