Tesla settles lawsuit over Apple engineer’s Autopilot death on eve of trial

  • 📰 mercnews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 33 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 16%
  • Publisher: 68%

Law Law Headlines News

Law Law Latest News,Law Law Headlines

Tesla’s deployment of its Autopilot software — standard on every vehicle — has led to a litany of regulatory and legal problems for the company.

Walter Huang and his wife Sevonne Huang on a trip to Butchart Gardens in Victoria, Canada On the eve of a jury trial expected to delve deeply into Tesla’s controversial “Autopilot” technology, the company has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of an Apple engineer killed on Highway 101 in Mountain View, according to court filings Monday.

The case was to go before a jury this week, but Tesla said in court filings that it had reached a deal with Huang’s wife and kids. According to a filing by the electric car maker led by CEO Elon Musk and a lawyer for the Huang family, the settlement amount is confidential. No other terms of the deal were disclosed in the filings. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A 2019 survey by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that Tesla’s Autopilot, more than any other manufacturer’s driver-assistance systems, led people to overestimate system capabilities, with 48% saying they thought it would be

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 88. in LAW

Law Law Latest News, Law Law Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Tesla is settling with the family of the Apple engineer who died in an Autopilot crashTesla was scheduled to appear in court to defend its Autopilot system against a claim of wrongful death — but it looks it’ll pay the family of Wei “Walter” Huang instead.
Source: verge - 🏆 94. / 67 Read more »

Tesla is dragging Apple into its upcoming fatal Autopilot crash trialTesla and Apple are being accused by the family of a deceased Apple engineer of secretly colluding to undermine a wrongful death lawsuit involving Autopilot.
Source: verge - 🏆 94. / 67 Read more »