A federal jury on Friday found Elon Musk’s Tesla partially liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving the electric vehicle maker’s autopilot system.

The Miami jury determined Tesla was 33 percent responsible for the crash and ordered the company to pay several million dollars in damages.

The family of Naibel Benavides sued the EV maker over the crash that resulted in the 22-year-old's death, alleging the company’s autopilot system had “defective and unsafe characteristics” that it failed to warn consumers about.

“Tesla’s lies turned our roads into test tracks for their fundamentally flawed technology, putting everyday Americans like Naibel Benavides and Dillon Angulo in harm's way,” Brett Schreiber, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement.

“Today's verdict represents justice

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