The family of Walter Huang, an Apple engineer who died when his Tesla crashed into a concrete barrier on the San Francisco Bay Area highway in 2018, had filed a…
The lawsuit alleged Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk were liable for repeatedly exaggerating the capabilities of Tesla’s self-driving car technology.has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company’s semi-autonomous driving software.
The family of Walter Huang filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit in 2019 seeking to hold Tesla — and, by extension, its CEO— liable for repeatedly exaggerating the capabilities of Tesla’s self-driving car technology. They claimed the technology, dubbed Autopilot, was promoted in egregious ways that caused vehicle owners to believe they didn’t have to remain vigilant while they were behind the wheel.
After dropping his son off at preschool, Huang activated the Autopilot feature on his Model X for his commute to his job at Apple. But less than 20 minutes later, Autopilot veered the vehicle out of its lane and began to accelerate before barreling into a barrier located at a perilous intersection on a busy highway in Mountain View,Huang, 38, died at the gruesome scene, leaving behind his wife and two children, now 12 and 9 years old.
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