San Francisco, United States: Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s Tesla has said its future will be centred around Robotaxis, robots and self-driving cars. Musk’s own fortunes, including the promise of a $1 trillion pay package, will depend on the carmaker hitting those milestones over the next decade.One key feature to achieve some of those goals revolves around Tesla’s ability to offer a fully self-driving service – the company is required to sell up to 10 million subscriptions for self-driving cars as one of the conditions in the proposed trillion-dollar pay package.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBut the reliability of that service is in question for now, as there have been multiple accidents, including in which a person was killed, and the self-driving feature was held at fault, experts said.That is not a spotlight that Tesla wants, and the company recently settled with the family of a 15-year-old boy in San Francisco who died in 2019 after a Tesla self-driving car hit the car his father was driving, court filings on Monday showed. The family of Jovani Maldonado had alleged that the self-driving car was at fault for the accident.The settlement came weeks after a Florida jury ordered the company to pay $243m in damages to the family of a female pedestrian who had died in a crash involving a Tesla self-driving car. The jury had reached a verdict that the car was at fault, setting a precedent for cases such as the Maldonados’ case. The company has appealed the Florida verdict.Whil …
