A woman from Houston, Texas is suing Tesla for USD1 million after a terrifying incident which she claimed put her and her one-year-old child’s lives in danger, KHOU reports.
The incident, which happened in August 2025, involved the Justine Saint Amour’s Cybertruck, which was allegedly operating with Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode engaged when it nearly went off an overpass barrier on Houston’s 69 Eastex Freeway. According to court records, the plaintiff attempted to disengage FSD mode, but her attorney said the intervention came too late to prevent the crash.
Footage posted by KHOU showed the all-electric pick-up truck driving along the road before attempting but ultimately failing to navigate a right-hand turn at a Y-shaped overpass. Had it not struck a lighting pole that sent it ricocheting back, the vehicle would have probably flown off the overpass and likely crashed into other vehicles nine metres below. Even so, the woman claimed she suffered multiple injuries from the impact and sued Tesla last month in a liability and negligence case.
The plaintiff’s attorney, Bob Hilliard, told KHOU that his client had no time to react before the Cybertruck headed straight for the barrier. “At the last second she looked at the screen and saw that the Tesla truck was not going to go left and it was not going to go right, it was going to go straight over the overpass,” he said.
“Even a very alert driver who allows the truck to drive itself, as it says it can, can’t go from passenger to emergency-driver reaction in a blink of an eye, and that’s what Tesla expects,” he continued, adding that Tesla’s marketing of its self-driving technology overpromises what is actually delivers. “It is a driver-assist Tesla, basically cruise control on steroids. But the marketing tells the driver that it’s fully self-driving,” said Hilliard.
This is tricky legal situation, as the claim by the plaintiff is that her Cybertruck was already too far in motion for any intervention to be effective. Tesla does market its FSD technology with the ‘(Supervised)’ suffix for legal reasons, and its support page explicitly states: “None of these advanced driver assistance features make your Tesla vehicle fully autonomous or replace you as the driver.”
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Sendiri bodoh and lousy driver want to sue this and that. Should revoke her lesen.
tesla owned by the same boss that is waging war on middle east using his subsidiaries spaceX and openai.
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As of March 2026, Elon Musk is engaged in a high-stakes legal battle with OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015. Musk alleges OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman defrauded him by abandoning the firm’s non-profit mission, seeking $134 billion in damages as the case heads to trial in California in April 2026
This lawsuit will not go anywhere. Especially since Tesla can provide data how long the driver took their eyes off from looking forward.
Only smoothbrain NPCs love and buy Tesla.
Tesla cars are unsafe and will eliminate you. Let the fanboys buy them, stay away from Tesla