Posted on 06/29/2025 8:33:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A New Jersey man has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Tesla, alleging that the EV giant’s design defects led to a fatal crash on the Garden State Parkway that claimed the lives of his parents and teenage sister.
New York Daily News reports that Max Dryerman, a 19-year-old resident of New Jersey, is seeking damages from Tesla following a tragic accident on September 14, 2024, which resulted in the deaths of his 54-year-old parents and 17-year-old sister. The family was traveling in a 2024 Tesla Model S on the Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge when the vehicle veered off the road, striking a guardrail and a concrete bridge support.
According to the lawsuit filed last week in a Camden federal court, Dryerman claims that the Tesla’s “defective and unreasonably dangerous design” was responsible for the fatal crash. The car was equipped with advanced safety features, including forward collision warning, lane departure avoidance, and emergency lane departure, which the suit claims should have prevented the vehicle from leaving its lane and crashing.
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...the only reason to sue Tesla is he can't get anywhere near as much from the state.
Amateur! Any woman worth her salt can drive just fine, even while applying mascara in the rear-view mirror. ;)
Plenty of scary drivers out there. And those same people VOTE!
*SHUDDER*
I see this more and more. I am an attentive defensive driver and I hate driving nowadays because I seem like I am the only one aware of driving skills. I seldom have an accident but I had one last year when a driver ran a stop sign. Nothing I could do. he T-boned me. Clear day. Dry pavement. No excuse.
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I have eaten many burgers and fries and chicken fingers?! while driving with no accidents;been hit several times when NOT doing anything except driving sensibly. Rear ended several times in stopped traffic waiting for light to change.Hit head on by driver running red light and another crossing center.
Air bags have undoubtedly lessened my injuries.
I hope he gets millions. What a horrific tragedy due to Tesla.
“Discovery will be VERY interesting. Especially who is representing the plaintiff and if cell phone records show that SOMEBODY wasn’t “safe driving” the vehicle.”
Tesla’s have full exterior and interior cameras running at all times. When in FSD or autopilot the interior cameras lock onto the eyes and make sure you are looking up and out the windshield forward. If you look down to long it will sound an alarm and disengage. They also have full black boxes with telemetry. There probably is not a better car for forensic crash analysis. In discovery they will know what driver inputs to the controls were, what level of autopilot or FSD was in use and full internal and external video as well. My take is the driver was either impaired or was not paying attention and ignored the alarm to take.control when the tech disengaged as it is designed to do.
Nearly every Tesla crash on “FSD” was not really in FSD it had disengaged and the person ignored the alarms or it was autopilot and the driver asked it to do something it was not meant to do.
My model 3 has FSD it so far has worked perfectly. The model Y has autopilot as I don’t want the kid who leases it from me to use it while uber blacking it.
I have been extremely lucky. No one has hit me (other than door dings in parking lots - GRRRR!) and I’ve never hit anyone.
I DID roll my Dad’s VW when I was 16, but it was slippery and I rolled it in fresh, powdery snow, so no damage to me or the car. Two ladies behind me stopped and pushed the VW back onto her tires, then gave me a ride back to my boyfriend’s house.
I didn’t start crying until I saw him; then the waterworks started, LOL!
Yeah, like another said earlier, “No other vehicle ever did this!” By the way, stay away from the power tools and don’t play with the electric sockets…moron!
“ The argument for air bags is that they passive restrains.”
I’ve long argued that airbags and seat belts should be removed and replaced with a 9 inch long stainless steel spike in the center of the steering wheel.
That would focus driver concentration pretty well.
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“ The argument for air bags is that they passive restrains.”
I’ve long argued that airbags and seat belts should be removed and replaced with a 9 inch long stainless steel spike in the center of the steering wheel.
That would focus driver concentration pretty well.
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I bet they sue too. By the way Einstein, power tools and other cars are operator error. This is a manufacturing problem. Such an idiot you are. Sad.
That is called farding!
Was the emergency lane departure turned on, or left turned off?
The horror! Catsup on a hotdog!
The horror! Catsup on a hotdog!
Dream-on, dirtbag. Dream-on.
I bet I win this. The crappy company will either settle or lose millions in the verdict.
If you make things idiot proof,the universe creates a bigger idiot.🤔
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