Back in 2019, the family of Apple engineer Wei Lun Huang (aka Walter Huang). He sued Tesla A year after his death, his Model X crashed into a median in Mountain View while on autopilot. That case is officially closed, now that the automaker has settled the lawsuit on the day jury selection was supposed to take place. according to CNBC and The New York Times, Tesla’s lawyers asked the court to seal the settlement so the exact amount the company paid would not be made public. The company did not solicit “other potential bidders (or a bar of bidders)”. [to] Treat the settlement amount as evidence of Tesla’s potential liability for damages, which could have a chilling effect on settlement opportunities in future cases.”
Tesla confirmed Autopilot was engaged during the crash shortly after the crash, but he also insisted Huang had time to react and had an unobstructed view of the divider. In a press release from the company insisted that the driver was at fault and that the only way the accident could have happened was because Huang “didn’t pay attention to the road despite the car’s repeated warnings to do so.” In the lawsuit, Huang’s lawyers pointed to Tesla’s Autopilot marketing materials, suggesting that its cars are safe enough to operate on the road without drivers keeping their hands on the wheel at all times. We took the picture from the video above Tesla’s Autopilot pageshows the driver with his hands in his lap.
Incident, investigating and Huang’s previously reported that the vehicle had veered off the highway on previous trips. In fact, his family said he complained about his car sliding into the barrier where he crashed and even reported it to a Tesla dealer, who was unable to replicate the problem. The agency also concluded that Tesla’s collision warning system did not alert the driver and its emergency braking system did not activate as it should have when the car began to move toward an obstacle.
He said the NTSB also found that Huang runs a mobile game on his phone during the accident. He could not determine whether the phone was in his hand at the time of the accident. The Times Tesla said it was preparing to present evidence to the court that Huang was playing games when the crash occurred, which his lawyers denied. Regardless of who was really at fault, a trial would draw renewed attention to the safety of Tesla’s driver assistance system. The dispute put the company out of business several months earlier on August 8 presents its robotax.
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