2018 fatal Tesla car crash involving Apple engineer, Tesla settles lawsuit to avoid trial on Autopilot's role.

Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a fatal car crash involving an Apple engineer in 2018. The settlement avoids a lengthy jury trial on the role of Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance technology in the accident. The case involved a highway accident that killed Walter Huang, with Tesla arguing Huang misused the system by playing a video game just before the accident. Huang's family claimed Autopilot steered his Model X into a highway barrier, and questioned Tesla's safety measures.