'Autopilot' drove Tesla into barrier causing 'catastrophic injuries,' lawsuit claims, echoing fatal Mountain View crash


A Tesla Model 3 vehicle drives on autopilot. The ontroversial 'Autopilot' system drove a man's Model 3 into a highway barrier, leaving him with 'catastrophic injuries,' a new lawsuit claims.— Reuters

Tesla's controversial "Autopilot" system drove a man's Model 3 into a highway barrier, leaving him with "catastrophic injuries," a new lawsuit claims.

The alleged circumstances of the incident echo a 2018 crash on Highway 101 in Mountain View that killed Walter Huang, an Apple engineer from Foster City. That collision, which federal authorities found was caused by the Autopilot driver-assistance system steering Huang's Tesla Model X compact SUV into a freeway barrier while Huang played a video game on his phone, was cited in a lawsuit filed last month alleging Tesla has been deceiving buyers and the public with claims about its Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving" systems, and killing people with Autopilot.

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