The case relates to the death of a 15-year-old boy who was traveling in Alameda County, California with his father in a vehicle when it was rear-ended by a Tesla Model 3.Tesla reached a confidential deal to resolve a lawsuit over a teenager’s death in a 2019 California crash involving a Model 3 vehicle on the company’s Autopilot advanced driver assistance software, a court order showed on Tuesday.
The settlement comes weeks after a Florida jury ordered Tesla to pay $243 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the victims of another fatal 2019 crash of a Model S that was equipped with Autopilot. Tesla has said the verdict was “wrong” and that it would file an appeal.
The electric-vehicle maker, which has settled several other cases involving its vehicles and self-driving technology, had rejected a $60 million settlement proposal for the Florida lawsuit, a filing showed last month.
The latest settlement notice on Tuesday did not provide the terms of the accord, but said that the dismissal of the lawsuit was conditioned on “satisfactory completion of specified terms.”
The case relates to the death of a 15-year-old boy who was traveling in Alameda County, California with his father in a vehicle when it was rear-ended by a Tesla Model 3, which had Autopilot engaged.
The trial was scheduled to start in about a month in Alameda County Superior Court. A judge in the Alameda Superior Court on Tuesday vacated the scheduled trial, according to the court order.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
