On the eve of a trial over the death of an Apple engineer, who died in 2018 when his Model X hit a highway barrier, Tesla settled the lawsuit.
of a trial over the death of 38-year-old Apple engineer Walter Huang, who died in 2018 when his Model X hit a highway barrier,
The electric car company avoided what could have been a lengthy jury trial over its controversial automated-driving system and the role it may have played in the collision. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed in court filings.by the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the driver was “likely distracted by a gaming application on his cell phone before the crash,” while also citing the to “limitations” of Tesla’s Autopilot system.
While the company did not agree with NHTSA’s investigation findings, Tesla accepted the decision to recall in hopes of resolving the probe. In February that year, 360,000 Tesla vehicles with its Full Self-Driving Beta software were also recalled.published on March 30, 2018, Tesla said that Huang had received “several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive” and that his hands were not detected on the steering wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.
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