Tesla has settled a lawsuit against its former Autopilot director for $100,000
Tesla filed a lawsuit in January claiming Anderson teamed up with Chris Urmson, the former boss of Google's self-driving-car project, to launch a competing company called Aurora Innovation while still serving as Tesla's Autopilot director.
Aurora paid $100,000 to Tesla as part of a settlement, according to Tesla.
Before the suit revealed Urmson and Anderson were working on a self-driving-car venture, Aurora had been operating in stealth mode.
The suit claimed Anderson violated his contract by trying to poach at least a dozen Tesla engineers to work for Aurora while still leading Tesla's Autopilot efforts. It also claimed Anderson downloaded "hundreds of gigabytes of data" with sensitive information that wasn't returned upon his termination.
Anderson wrote in a Medium post Wednesday that Tesla had withdrawn the lawsuit.
"Today, less than three months after filing (and even before we were permitted to file a response) Tesla has withdrawn its claims, without damages, without attorney's fees, and without any finding of wrongdoing," Anderson wrote in the post.
A Tesla spokesperson confirmed the suit has been dropped:
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