Tesla wants Apple to testify in an upcoming wrongful death lawsuit over its Autopilot feature, by proving the Apple engineer behind the wheel was playing games instead of paying attention.
Tesla faces a trial on April 8 over a fatal crash from 2018 involving its Autopilot feature, and whether its software is at fault for a car accident. However, lawyers representing the family of the deceased driver, Apple engineer Wei "Walter" Huang" has accused Apple of working with Tesla to help its case.
A pretrial motion filed earlier this week says Apple was "engaging in a secret discovery work-around to help support Tesla in its defense of the pending case," reports The Verge.
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