Eyeing the future of self-driving cars, Musk's Tesla settles accident case

Eyeing the future of self-driving cars, Musk's Tesla settles accident case Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk's Tesla has said its future will be centred around Robotaxis, robots and self-driving cars. Musk's own fortunes, including the promise of a $1 trillion pay package, will depend on the carmaker hitting those milestones over the next decade. One key feature to achieve some of those goals revolves around Tesla's ability to offer a fully self-driving service - the company is required to sell up to 10 million subscriptions for self-driving cars as one of the conditions in the proposed trillion-dollar pay package. That is not a spotlight that Tesla wants, and the company recently settled with the family of a 15-year-old boy in San Francisco who died in 2019 after a Tesla self-driving car hit the car his father was driving, court filings on Monday showed. The family of Jovani Maldonado had alleged that the self-driving car was at fault for the accident. The settlement came weeks after a Florida jury ordered the company to pay $243m in damages to the family of a female pedestrian who had died in a crash involving a Tesla self-driving car.