An advertisement promotes Tesla Autopilot at a showroom of U.S. car manufacturer Tesla in Zurich, Switzerland March 28, 2018.
The lawsuit, filed against Tesla by the passengers and Lee's estate, accuses Tesla of knowing that Autopilot and other safety systems were defective when it sold the car.
Tesla won a bellwether trial in Los Angeles in April with a strategy of saying that it tells drivers that its technology requires human monitoring, despite the "Autopilot" name.
Tesla, for instance, won a bid to exclude some of Musk’s public statements about Autopilot.
The trial, in Riverside County Superior Court, is expected to last a few weeks.
Persons:
Arnd, Micah Lee’s, Lee, Tesla, Elon Musk, jousted, Dan Levine, Matthew Lewis
Organizations:
REUTERS, Tesla, Reuters, Riverside County Superior Court, San, Thomson
Locations:
U.S, Zurich, Switzerland, California, Los Angeles, Riverside County, San Francisco