Tesla settles lawsuit over deadly autopilot crash

Tesla has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of an Apple engineer who died in a 2018 crash after his Model X vehicle was operating in autopilot mode and smashed into a concrete barrier in Mountain View.

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[markplott]

I would ONLY offer the FAMILY a 2 for 1 deal at McDonalds limited to only 30 days.

[DanielPalmer-cu]

its not an Auto pilot crash, it's just a regular Human error crash.

[celebrityrog]

C'mon, he was asleep at the wheel and the car warned him multiple times to take control and the evidence shows he didn't. I'm sure the settlement isn't for much since if you have money to own a Tesla, you're already wealthy and money isn't going to be a compensation package for someone like that.

[AJFish-rmcv]

My friends love their Teslas, but luckily knew not to believe the CEO's overpromises on "Full Self-Driving". People who weren't privy to that word-of-mouth whisper campaign weren't so lucky.

[masonite]

Did Tesla offer the family a free car?

[seadweller]

Not only that, he told his wife previously that the car behaved sketchy at that exact area where he wiped out. Guess he wanted to see if it would behave the same way. He got his answer all right.

[seadweller]

Gold digging family. YOU are supposed to be in control of your vehicle at all times. Just be glad his negligence didn’t take any innocent drivers out that day.

[TheBagarali]

I have been seying for years there is no such thing as autopilot, They themself admitted you need to use it under human supervsion. However, they still advertise their car has self driving ability and Elon himself claims FSD is statistically safer than human driver. To me it is beyond comreahandible.