Sept 16 (Reuters) - 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.