Tesla Wants Apple to Testify in Autopilot Crash Lawsuit

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Tesla is seeking Apple's testimony in a lawsuit regarding a fatal crash involving its Autopilot system. The company aims to prove that the driver was distracted by playing a video game on his phone at the time of the accident. The family of the deceased is accusing Tesla of collaborating with Apple to support its defense.

Tesla is going to court next week over the role its Autopilot system played in a fatal crash in 2018 — and it wants Apple to testify in its defense. Tesla wants to prove that Apple engineer Wei “Walter” Huang was playing a video game on his phone at the time his Autopilot-enabled Model X smashed into a safety barrier along US Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, in 2018.

And now, Huang’s family, which is suing Tesla for wrongful death, is claiming that Tesla is secretly working with Apple to aid in its defense. In a pretrial motion filed this week, lawyers representing Huang’s family accused Apple of “engaging in a secret discovery ‘work around’ to help support Tesla in its defense of the pending case

 

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