Tesla is dragging Apple into its upcoming fatal Autopilot crash trial

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Tesla and Apple are being accused by the family of a deceased Apple engineer of secretly colluding to undermine a wrongful death lawsuit involving Autopilot.

Tesla is going to court next week over the role its Autopilot system played in a fatal crash in 2018 — and it wants Apple to testify in its defense. Tesla wants to prove that Apple engineer Wei “Walter” Huang was playing a video game on his phone at the time his Autopilot-enabled Model X smashed into a safety barrier along US Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, in 2018.

Harding has worked at Apple for 18 years as a manager of “system debug tools and services,” according to his LinkedIn. 'Historical cellphone logs from Huang’s phone found “a pattern of active game play”' By submitting Harding’s testimony as a declaration rather than through a deposition, Tesla and Apple are trying to “circumvent the discovery process,” the lawyers representing Huang’s family contend.

 

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