Category Archives: Security

Virginia Woman Sues Tesla: “Insane” Mode Claimed as Negligence

She apparently didn’t want the insanity the Tesla dealer was selling.

Central to her claim is the allegation that the Model Y had been left in Insane mode before the test drive. […]

Rather than claiming that the Model Y mechanically malfunctioned, Lawgalet argues that Tesla employees created an unsafe situation by giving her the vehicle without adequate instruction or warning. The lawsuit alleges their handling of the test drive amounted to negligence.

Negligence generally means failing to use the level of care a reasonable person or business would use under similar circumstances. Businesses can face negligence claims when their own actions, or those of their employees, allegedly create a foreseeable risk of injury.

Of course Tesla claims the fault for their insanity is completely on the person exposed to it.

CA Tesla Kills One in Rear-end Crash Into Tractor

Police say they are investigating.

The driver of a Tesla sedan died in a fiery collision with a tractor in Elk Grove early Wednesday morning, authorities said.

The crash happened at about 5:38 a.m. on eastbound Kammerer Road in southern Elk Grove. The California Highway Patrol said the grey four-door sedan hit the back of the tractor, which was hauling grapes on Kammerer Road just east of Lent Road in southern Elk Grove.

This is almost identical to the first Tesla driverless fatal crash in 2016, so basically nothing has improved.

Source: ABC

CA Tesla Kills One in Crash Into Multiple Pedestrians

Police say they are investigating.

Multiple pedestrians were struck by a car, one fatally, in a parking lot Thursday afternoon in the Fairfax District, authorities said.

The collision occurred shortly before 1:30 p.m. at the Gilmore Station shopping center, near the intersection of Third Street and Fairfax Avenue. It appears the driver of a Tesla plowed into the security stand located in front of the parking lot shared by a Trader Joe’s grocery store, Mendocino Farms and Sidecar Doughnuts.

NY Tesla Driverless Blows Stop-sign and Crashes Into House

The police say they are investigating.

According to Gonzalez, the vehicle was traveling south when it passed through a stop sign at a T-shaped intersection and crashed directly into the house. The impact threw Gonzalez from the couch.

The homeowner said motorists who stopped after witnessing the crash told him the driver was asleep and that the Tesla was operating in Autopilot mode.

“There’s two people running towards me saying, ‘He’s asleep. He’s asleep.’ And then when I look to the side, I see the Tesla right in the house,” Gonzalez said. “Yeah. And the guy was still out, which is funny.”

This is not to be confused with the other Tesla in NY that also just crashed into a house.

A Tesla crashed into a home in Mastic on Saturday night, Suffolk police said.

A 25-year-old Islip man was driving a 2024 Tesla sedan northbound on Grand Avenue, when he lost control of the vehicle, and it left the roadway, before crashing into the home at around 9:15 p.m., according to police.

And neither of those are said to have anything to do with the Tesla in New Jersey that also just crashed into a house.

A 68-year-old Plainsboro man suffered minor injuries Friday after the Tesla he was driving crashed through a garage and into the kitchen of a home on Pheasant Run, township police said.