Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal Autopilot crash for undisclosed amount
Al Jazeera
The settlement avoids a jury trial months ahead of Tesla’s scheduled release of a self-driving taxi.
Electric carmaker Tesla has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of an Apple engineer who was killed when his Model X swerved off a California highway while on autopilot.
Tesla settled with the family of Wei Lun Huang in the wrongful death suit they filed over the crash in Mountain View, California in 2018, court filings showed on Monday.
The settlement means that Tesla will avoid a jury trial that would have focused scrutiny on its self-driving technology months ahead of the scheduled launch of its self-driving Robotaxi in August.
The amount Tesla paid to settle the case was not disclosed in court documents after the company asked that it remain under seal.
Huang’s family filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit in 2019 accusing Tesla of liability due to exaggerated claims about the firm’s self-driving technology.
