Tesla has reached confidential deals to resolve two lawsuits over deaths in separate California crashes in 2019 involving the company's Autopilot advanced driver-assistance software, according to court documents.

The settlements come weeks after a Florida jury ordered Tesla to pay $US243 million ($A364 million) in compensatory and punitive damages to the victims of another fatal 2019 crash of a Model S that was equipped with Autopilot.

Tesla hired a trio of prominent new lawyers and asked a judge to find the verdict legally unjustified and throw out the case, or to order a new trial.

The electric-vehicle maker, which has settled several other cases involving its vehicles and self-driving technology, had rejected a $US60 million ($A90 million) settlement proposal for the Florida lawsuit,

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