If you’re using Tesla’s Autopilot or Full Self-Driving systems in your car, you’re braver than me — I’ll tell ya that much. A new video out of Texas shows a Cybertruck, allegedly driving with Autopilot engaged, attempting to navigate a Houston overpass. I say attempting because the truck clearly overcooked the turn and slammed into a concrete barrier — the only thing separating the driver from falling dozens of feet onto the highway below. Now, she’s suing.
Houston resident Justine Saint Amour (sick name) was behind the wheel of a Cybertruck in August of 2025 with Autopilot engaged as she went up the overpass ramp. Everything seemed fairly normal until it came time to navigate a curve in the Y-shaped overpass on the Eastex Freeway. Rather than making the right turn, the truck drove straight on into a concrete barrier. In the lawsuit, Saint Amour says she disengaged Autopilot when she realized the truck wasn’t going to make the turn, but “it was too late,” according to the Austin American-Statesman. The whole incident was recorded on the Cybertruck’s dash cam.
The nasty crash allegedly caused serious injuries to Saint Amour’s right shoulder, neck and back. After seeing a doctor, she was diagnosed with two herniated discs in her lower back, another in her neck, sprained tendons in her wrist, and neuropathy causing numbness, tingling and weakness in her right hand, the lawsuit, filed in Harris County District Court last month, states. She is seeking an over-$1 million payout because of Tesla’s alleged negligence tied to misrepresenting the abilities of Autopilot and failing to incorporate features like lidar or a more effective emergency braking system, the American-Statesman reports.
“Tesla’s decisions made Justine’s accident inevitable. This company wants drivers to believe and trust their life on a lie: that the vehicle can self-drive and that it can do so safely. It can’t, and it doesn’t,” Bob Hilliard, Saint Amour’s attorney, told the Statesman. “The dashcam footage shows the type of foreseeable scenario where redundancy and override systems matter most.”
Tesla’s troubles
Saint Amour’s lawsuit calls out Tesla CEO Elon Musk by name, saying his involvement with the design of Tesla vehicles has been “dangerous.” Damn.
It points to the fact that Tesla’s driver assist systems rely solely on cameras, rather than a mixture of cameras and other sensors, like lidar — something Musk has called “lame” in the past.
“Elon Musk is an aggressive and irresponsible salesman, who has a long history of making dangerous design choices, and over-promising the features of his products,” the lawsuit reads. “This promotion of products, for capabilities that they do not have, is the reason for this incident.”
This lawsuit comes as Tesla deals with similar accusations from regulators in California that it misrepresented the actual capabilities of Autopilot. Tesla was actually forced to change the system’s name to “Navigate on Autosteer,” or it could have lost its dealer license, according to Car and Driver. Tesla has since sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles to reverse the ruling.
I can’t even tell you how many Autopilot and Full Self-Driving incidents there have been over the past few years in Tesla vehicles. Hell, just yesterday we told you about a Model 3 that flew right through a railroad crossing while the barricades were down. There are also numerous deadly incidents that have led toTesla paying out hundreds of millions in damages.
