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A federal jury in Miami has condemned Tesla to pay 243 million dollars for an accident in 2019 in Key Largo, Florida, after the company ensured for years that it did not have critical information about what happened. That version collapsed when a hacker known as @Greentheonly recovered the data of the Autopilot System in a Starbucks, demonstrating that the manufacturer had stored the evidence on its servers. The case dates back to the night of April 25, 2019, when George McGee, at the wheel of a Tesla Model S with the automatic pilot activated, removed the view of the road to collect his fallen mobile. The vehicle did not detect Naibel Benavides León, 22, and his partner Dillon Angulo, 33, who were standing on the edge of the road, according to The Washington Post. The impact ended Benavides' life and left Angulo with devastating wounds. A ghost file The relatives of the victim and the Angulo himself sued Tesla for negligence.From the beginning they claimed the "Collision Snapshots", records that show what the cameras and vehicle sensors detected in the seconds before the clash. But the company said it had no access to that information. In 2024, and about to go to trial without key evidence, the lawyers of the victims turned to a hacker who had been dismantling computers and cloning their memories for years. In a matter of minutes, he discovered that the data had been uploaded to the company's servers and marked for elimination. With them he made an increased video that showed how the vehicle detected the couple at a sufficient distance to stop, but did not issue clear warnings to the driver. Tesla claimed that he never tried to hide the information, but was "clumsy" in his handling, in the words of his lawyer Joel Smith. Judge Beth Bloom did not find evidence of intentional destruction, although she forced the company to pay the recovery costs faced by the plaintiffs. The jury, however, did consider Tesla 33% responsible for the incident. Blow to Musk The verdict is a historical setback for Tesla, which for years has defended that the ultimate responsibility falls to the driver, although Autopilot or the Full Self-Driving package are activated. Elon Musk has described this software as the element that defines the value of the company, ensuring that without it Tesla "would basically be worth." Miami's conviction already has an impact on other processes: a group of shareholders in Texas has denounced Tesla for fraud by promoting its autonomous driving, citing the case of Florida as a proof of “illegal acts and omissions”. In addition, in California another trial for the death of a 15 -year -old teenager in similar circumstances is coming. Beyond the legal level, the ruling also hits Tesla's reputation in a delicate moment.The company has accumulated federal investigations by dozens of shocks, and experts warn that this type of sentences can accelerate a stricter regulatory scrutiny about driver assistance technology. For some analysts, what happened in Miami is a turning point: the first major case that exposes the gap between Musk's narrative and the real operation of their roads on the road. A legal battle The plaintiffs rejected a millionaire offer of extrajudicial agreement because they wanted the truth to be known. "The world knows it now, but my sister still is here," said Neima Benavides, who baptized her daughter in honor of Naibel. The sentence also launches a message to regulators, who have already investigated dozens of mortal clashes related to the autopilot. "The jury is saying:" Change what they are doing, "said lawyer Don Slavik, who litigates in several similar cases. Meanwhile, the hacker who uncovered the scandal warns that Tesla has hardened the measures to shield its systems and that if such an accident happened today, perhaps you could no longer recover the data. The case of Key long evidence to what the technological narrative of Tesla clashes with a reality of victims, destroyed families and a justice that begins to put limits to the company of Elon Musk.