(Reuters) – Tesla has settled a lawsuit over the death of a former Apple engineer in 2018 after his vehicle veered off a highway in Northern California, the Washington Post reported on Monday citing court documents.
Details of the out-of-court settlement were not disclosed, the report said, adding the move would help Tesla avoid a lengthy jury trial over what role its technology may have played in the crash.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The case involves a highway accident near San Francisco that killed Apple engineer Walter Huang. Tesla had contended Huang misused the system because he was playing a video game just before the accident.
Lawyers for Huang’s family had raised questions about whether Tesla understood drivers likely would not or could not use the system as directed, and what steps the automaker took to protect them.
(Reporting by Aditya Soni in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
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