Tesla is trying to get an Apple engineer to testify in its defense at its fatal Autopilot crash trial

• Tesla is being sued by the family of an Apple engineer who died in 2018 after his Model X crashed.
• The family accused Tesla's Autopilot feature of being "defective" and the cause of the collision.
• Tesla plans to argue that the Apple engineer was distracted on his phone as the case goes to trial.

Tesla is set to go to trial next week over a lawsuit brought against it in 2019 over the role its Autopilot feature played in the fatal crash of Wei "Walter" Huang, an Apple engineer.

And now, in the 11th hour, Tesla hopes to involve Apple itself in the case by calling an engineer as a witness in an attempt to prove Huang was at fault for the collision.