Cybertruck Owner in Texas Sues Tesla for Over $1 Million After Autopilot Crash
A Tesla Cybertruck owner in Texas is suing the automaker for more than $1 million alleging that it ran into a concrete barrier while she was using Autopilot. The lawsuit also cites Tesla’s Full-Self Driving mode advertising, calling it deceptive.
The plaintiff was driving her Tesla Cybertruck “using the autopilot” in August 2025 in Houston, Texas when the accident occurred. She now wants Tesla to pay more than $1 million due to “negligent and grossly negligent conduct.”
According to the lawsuit, as reported by Car Complaints, “…the subject Cybertruck was driving on 69 Eastex Freeway approaching 256 Eastex Park and Ride while on Autopilot.
“On this ‘Y’ shaped overpass, where the vehicle should have followed the curve to the right onto 256 Eastex Park and Ride, the Cybertruck attempted to drive straight ahead into the concrete barrier and the freeway below, which caused Plaintiff to disengage the Self-Driving Mode and take control of the wheel but it was too late and crashed into the barrier, causing the injuries and damages complained of herein.”
The lawsuit also states, “Elon Musk is an aggressive and irresponsible salesman, who has a long history of making dangerous design choices, and overpromising features of his products.” It goes on to complain that the Tesla Cybertruck came with a “lack of warnings and instructions [which] rendered the product unreasonably dangerous.”
The list of complaints made against Tesla in the lawsuit is lengthy
Strangely, according to Car Complaints, the lawsuit doesn’t specify any physical injuries, how fast the truck was moving, how much damage it incurred, or whether the airbags deployed.
It does, however, list a litany of complaints against Tesla, including failure to provide effective “active emergency braking;” failure to provide LIDAR to improve the vision of its “self-driving” vehicles; failure to properly design the warnings or instructions for the self-driving feature; failure to properly warn of the dangers or limitations of self-driving; misleadingly advertising the FSD feature as “self-driving;” and negligently hiring and negligently retaining Elon Musk as CEO, and allowing him to participate in product design decisions.
The complaints in the lawsuit closely echo the reasons why in December, a judge ruled Tesla was deceptive in the marketing of its vehicles’ Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (which Tesla is fighting, sort of). The lawsuit also comes shortly after a federal judge denied the automaker’s attempt to overturn a $243 million jury decision related to a deadly 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida.
