A Miami jury has ordered Tesla to pay $243 million over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida after a hacker sipping on a Venti-size hot chocolate at a local Starbucks uncovered key vehicle data the company had claimed it could not find.

The verdict, delivered last month in federal court, held Tesla partially liable for the Key Largo wreck that killed 22-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon and left her boyfriend, Dillon Angulo, seriously injured.

Jurors saw evidence showing that Tesla’s own systems recorded a “collision snapshot” in the moments before the crash — data the company insisted was missing until a hacker extracted it from the car’s Autopilot computer at a Starbucks, according to the Washington Post. 6

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Tesla had argued the crash was caused entirely by driver George Mc

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