A robotics technician of Tesla has filed a $ 51 million process against the car manufacturer and a robotic supplier, after being hit by a defective robot.
Peter Hinterdobler sued Tesla Photo: X
Peter Hinterdobler, 50, claims he was hit by Tesla factory and remained unconscious, suffering serious injuries in July 2023. He states that he has spent $ 1 million on medical treatments, and in the near future he will need treatments worth at least 6 million dollars.
The technician said in his trial that the accident occurred while helping an engineer dismantle a robot in the company of Fremont, California, and says the arm of the car “It has been released suddenly and without warning, with a great force. ”
He argues that the power of the mechanical arm was combined with the weight of a counterweight of 3600 kg, which collapsed and left it on the factory floor.
The employee calls for damages of $ 51 million for alleged lost salaries, emotional stress, pain and suffering, as well as low winning capacity, said San Francisco Chronicle.
The technician sues both Tesla and the Fanuc America robotic company, a Japanese company that built the car that is supposed to be injured.
The trial comes in a delicate moment for the chief of Tesla, Elon Musk, whose dominant position in the electric vehicle industry has decreased in the last financial reports.
Hinterdobler claims in his complaint that Tesla did not ensure that the robot mechanism was safe before he was working on it.
He claims that the electric car manufacturer is guilty because the car was not “disconnected, secure and stable in safe conditions ” the moment he tried to disassemble it.
The 50 -year -old man also claimed that Funac was neglected in equipment design.
He adds that the location of the robot in the Fremont factory “was not designed for such equipment“And he claims that Tesla has introduced new car safety protocols after his accident.
Tesla problems
The case was registered last week in California, just a few weeks after Tesla published a worrying report on vehicle sales, which showed that its dominant position in the electric car industry is declining.
According to the report, only 38% of the new electric vehicle owners were driving a Tesla – for the first time in almost eight years, the company sold less than 40% of new electric vehicles in America.
Tesla has been accused of selling inaccessible vehicles, and buyers turned to newer and cheaper models, such as Hyundai, Chevy and Kia.
Currently, electric vehicle drivers tend to have more liberal opinions. Many of them swore to boycott Tesla because of Elon Musk's former role as Donald Trump's counselor at the White House, in which he tried to reduce the expenses of the federal government.
Musk's last important launch of Musk, the Angular Cybertruck model was expected to be a success, because the billionaire said he had “over a million reservations“One month before the car launch.
However, in the two years since the launch of the $ 72,000 truck, the company sold only about 52,000 copies.
On September 1, the company launched “Master Plan 4”, a roadmap of its future strategy. It did not mention a new vehicle model or an update of its current cars.
Instead, the plan also puts the robotics in the center of the future Tesla, with promises of humanoid robots that can clean a home and autonomous vehicles that have no steering wheel or rear -view mirrors.
“We must clarify one thing: this challenge will be extremely difficult to overcome”, wrote the company.
This bet is also related to Musk's salary.
