Tesla avoids lengthy trial over controversial driving aid after engineer's death in 2018. A former Apple engineer died in 2018 after his car hit a highway guardrail without braking.
The agreement filed Monday in court in San José (California) does not disclose the amount that Tesla will pay to Walter Huang's wife and two children. The father died on March 23, 2018 in Mountain View, shortly after the accident. In the complaint filed in 2019, the plaintiffs believe that Tesla's “Autopilot” system, activated at the time of the impact, was “faulty”