Tesla has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of an engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company's semi-autonomous driving software. The lawsuit alleged that Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk repeatedly exaggerated the capabilities of their self-driving car technology.
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 size of the settlement was not disclosed in court documents filed Monday, just a day before the trial stemming from the 2018 crash on a San Francisco Bay Area highway was scheduled to begin.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. Evidence indicated that Huang was playing a video game on his iPhone when he crashed into a concrete highway barrier on March 23, 2018. Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyAfter 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. The case was just one of about a dozen scattered across the U.S. raising questions about whether Musk’s boasts about the effectiveness of Tesla’s autonomous technology fosters a misguided faith in the company’s Autopilot and Full Self Driving, or FSD, mode. The U.S. Justice Department also opened an inquiry last year into how Tesla and Musk promote its autonomous technology, according to regulatory filings that didn’t provide many details about the nature of the probe., prevailed last year in a Southern California trial focused on whether misperceptions about Tesla’s Autopilot feature contributed to a driver in a 2019 crash involving one of the company’s cars. A national survey of electric vehicle drivers from J.D. Power shows Americans generally love driving EVs, but there’s growing dissatisfaction around finding a working charging station. It’s even more problematic for those who don’t drive a Tesla. National climate reporter Chase Cain shows us what’s being done about the disconnect with EV chargers.
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