Two experts on autonomous vehicle safety recently dove into legal arguments and engineering factors that shaped last week’s landmark jury decision against Tesla, at one point surfacing an important takeaway about insurance for Tesla drivers.

“Your insurance company most likely is going to ‘total loss’ this car. You want to say to your insurance company, ‘I want this car put on hold until we’ve figured out what happened,’” said Mike Nelson, a partner in the law firm Nelson Niehaus LLC, during a webinar Monday, advising Tesla owners who might at some point be involved in serious accident situations like George McGee, the Tesla driver in the Benavides v. Tesla case.