Tesla is settling with the household of the Apple engineer who died in an Autopilot crash

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This week, Tesla was scheduled to seem in court docket to defend its Autopilot system towards a declare of wrongful demise — but it surely appears to be like like the corporate pays the household of Apple engineer Wei “Walter” Huang as an alternative.

Courtroom paperwork present that Tesla is attempting to seal the quantity of a settlement cost to the Huang household. Whereas it isn’t clear how a lot the corporate could be paying or what different phrases the settlement contains, legal professionals for Tesla state that each events have already agreed to the settlement and wish it to be confidential.

You’ll be able to learn that doc beneath; The Washington Publish and Bloomberg reported the information earlier. Legal professionals for the Huang household didn’t instantly reply to our electronic mail.

Huang’s Tesla Mannequin X was confirmed to be utilizing Autopilot when it smashed into a security barrier in Mountain View, California in March 2018. He died following the crash. The Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) discovered that each Autopilot and distracted driving had been elements resulting in the crash.

Tesla was planning to argue that Huang was taking part in a sport on his cellphone on the time — he had a sample of taking part in video games throughout commute hours, and investigators discovered a sport was the foremost app on his cellphone on the time, however couldn’t decide if he was truly taking part in it when the automobile crashed.

Tesla is settling with the household of the Apple engineer who died in an Autopilot crash

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