Tesla settles class action lawsuit over 'dangerous' Autopilot system

Tesla on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S and Model X cars who alleged that the company's assisted-driving Autopilot system was'essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous.' The agreement, announced in a filing in San Jose federal court late Thursday, still has to be approved by U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. Tesla said in a statement it wanted to do right by its customers and, as part of the proposed deal, agreed to compensate car owners who purchased the 2.0 version of Autopilot and had to wait longer than expected for the driving features to become active. Tesla-CEO Elon Musk speaks during the delivery of the first more reasonable Tesla vehicle Model 3 in Fremont. Two U.S. consumer advocacy groups urged the FTC to investigate what they called Tesla's'deceptive and misleading' use of the name Autopilot for its assisted-driving technology.