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Tesla is dragging Apple into its upcoming fatal Autopilot crash trial


Walter Huang was killed when his Model X slammed into a safety barrier.

Tesla wants to prove that Apple engineer Wei “Walter” Huang was playing a video game on his phone at the time his Autopilot-enabled Model X smashed into a safety barrier along US Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, in 2018. In a pretrial motion filed this week, lawyers representing Huang’s family accused Apple of “engaging in a secret discovery ‘work around’ to help support Tesla in its defense of the pending case.” “Apple is not a party to this case, has never appeared, and has not received any notice of entry of order relating to the dispute,” the company’s lawyers argue in its application to quash the subpoena.

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