A Houston area woman is suing Tesla and accusing the automaker of negligence after her self-driving Cybertruck crashed into a barrier on an overpass last August.
Justine Saint Amour is seeking more than $1 million for injuries from the crash which happened on Interstate 69 while the vehicle was on autopilot, the lawsuit alleges.
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The lawsuit, filed in Harris County, accuses Tesla of misrepresenting the safety elements of the autopilot technology and called co-founder Elon Musk‘s involvement in the design “reckless and dangerous.” It the latest suit against Tesla over alleged safety issues and negligence, including one filed in 2025 by the family of a Houston man who died when his Tesla Cybertruck caught fire after driving into a ditch.
Representatives of Tesla did not respond to requests for comments.
Amour was driving a Cybertruck, purchased from a Florida dealership, in August 2025 when the vehicle failed to veer on a curve to the right on the Eastex Freeway, specifically on a Y-shaped overpass, prompting her to attempt to disable the self-driving mode. Instead, the vehicle continued to drive toward a barrier and then crashed into it, the lawsuit says.
Amour’s suit alleges Musk rejected Tesla engineers’ recommendations to install the autopilot system with safety backup systems, including LiDAR – a laser-based sensor technology used by competitors – and instead relied on “cheap video cameras.” The suit also claims Tesla did not equip the vehicle with an adequate backup brake system and did not provide warnings or sufficient instructions to avoid dangers.
Tesla and Musk marketed the autopilot systems as “safe and fully operational” in 2019 representations, according to the lawsuit.
This article originally published at Houston woman sues Tesla for $1M after Cybertruck on autopilot crashes into I-69 barrier: lawsuit.