A settlement is the sound a lawsuit makes when it stops. For Tesla, one just went quiet. The far louder problem, a federal safety investigation, is still talking.
Tesla has settled a lawsuit tied to a fatal 2023 crash involving its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, Bloomberg first reported. Neither side disclosed the terms. TechCrunch laid out how the case began.
The daughter of Johna Story brought the suit. Story, who was 71, had stepped out of her car on an Arizona highway. She was waving traffic around an earlier crash caused by blinding sun glare. A Tesla Model Y then struck and killed her at speed. Her death marked the first known pedestrian fatality tied to Tesla’s automation. “My client is happy to put this behind her,” her attorney, Dustin Birch, told Bloomberg. Tesla’s lawyer did not respond.
Settling ends the family’s claim. It does not end the part that should worry Tesla more. The Story crash is one of the incidents behind a federal investigation into FSD, and that inquiry is very much alive.
The investigation that did not settle
