The next time you find yourself driving near a Tesla, give a wide berth to the amazing car of the future. It is still very much of the present. A Davie lawyer, frustrated and alarmed by an autopilot with a mind of its own on his new $108,000 Tesla, is one of the lead plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the automaker claiming he was one of 50,000 customers who was sold a “dangerously …
Tesla owners today filed a class-action lawsuit against the automaker for knowingly selling nearly 50,000 cars with nonfunctional Enhanced Autopilot AP2.0 software that still has not met Tesla’s promises, including inoperative Standard Safety Features on affected models sold in Q4 2016 and Q1 2017, according to Hagens Berman.
Now, a Texas man says that his Tesla Model S, while in autopilot mode, sent him off the road, smashing into a guardrail and bloodying his nose. He admits he wasn’t paying full attention – the autopilot had successfully navigated this route before, and he was leaning over to get a cloth out of his glovebox when the collision occurred. “I used Autopilot all the time on that stretch of the …