Tesla has been ordered by a Munich court to reimburse a client for almost EUR 112,000 (roughly Rs. 90,00,000) which had she paid for a Model X SUV as she was facing some issues with the Autopilot function, Der Spiegel had reported on Friday.

HIGHLIGHTS
Tesla vehicles failed to recognize obstacles in between the roads 
Lawyers of Tesla had argued that Autopilot wasn’t designed for city traffics
The company is about to launch a test version of Full Self-Driving software

According to a technical report, the vehicle failed to reliably recognize obstacles just like the narrowing of a construction site and unnecessarily at times it would activate the brakes.

As per the court, such things can cause a 'massive hazard' in town centres and can also cause collisions.

Well, the Tesla lawyers had argued that the Autopilot was never designed for town traffic, as per Der Spiegel, in response the court has mentioned that it was not at all possible for the drivers to switch the feature on and off manually within numerous settings because it would distract them from driving.

Neither Tesla nor the court was available at that point of time for the comment, so it declined to respond to the comment of Der Spiegel.

US safety regulators have been investigating Tesla's Autopilot function after there was a report of 16 crashes, along with seven injury incidents and one death. This would have been involving Tesla vehicles in Autopilot that had affected stationary first-responder and road maintenance vehicles.

Tesla had mentioned that Autopilot permits the vehicles to brake and steer automatically among their lanes however it does not make them capable of driving themselves.

Musk had already mentioned in March that Tesla is probably going to launch a test version of its new 'Full Self-Driving' software in Europe later this year, depending on regulative approval.

He had asked his workers at the Berlin factory that 'It's quite troublesome to do full self-driving in Europe,' and said that much of the work need to be done to handle the difficult driving situations in Europe where roads vary a lot by country.

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