By Madlin Mekelburg, Bloomberg

Tesla Inc. reached a confidential deal to resolve a lawsuit by the family of a teenager who was killed in a 2019 California crash involving a Model 3 on Autopilot.

The settlement disclosed in court filings marks the latest move by the electric-vehicle maker to avoid a jury trial over a fatal wreck. A trial was scheduled to start in about a month in Alameda County Superior Court.

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The accord comes after after the automaker has struck secret settlements in several other cases that blamed defective technology for deadly accidents. Tesla prevailed in two California trials in 2023 over Autopilot crashes, but suffered its first significant setback in July when a federal jury in Miami found the company partially responsible for a fatal collision

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