Tesla dodges trial and settles lawsuit over a deadly Autopilot crash

Tesla has avoided another jury trial over a deadly crash involving the electric carmaker's Autopilot driver-assist system. Elon Musk's company reached a deal this week to settle a lawsuit with the family of a 15-year-old boy who was killed in a 2019 California highway collision after a Tesla Model 3 slammed into the teen's father's pickup truck.Notice of settlement documents were filed in Alameda County Superior Court on Monday, just four weeks before the case was scheduled to go to trial. The documents sa ...