In August 2025, a woman driving a Tesla Cybertruck in Texas crashed into a guardrail after the vehicle headed straight toward the edge of an overpass while in autopilot-assisted mode. The woman subsequently filed a lawsuit seeking over $1 million in damages, accusing Tesla of misleading the public about the capabilities of its autopilot system and of the vehicle not being equipped with lidar or a more effective emergency braking system. Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded by stating that driving logs showed the driver had manually disabled Autopilot four seconds before the collision.
