Saturday, September 5, 2026
Tesla settles fatal Autopilot fire-truck lawsuit
Tesla settled the Caleb Mendoza et al. v. Tesla wrongful-death suit in California federal court, Electrek reported September 2, 2026, avoiding an October 26 trial over a February 18, 2023 crash in which a 2014 Model S on Autopilot hit a parked fire truck on Interstate 680, killing driver Genesis Giovanni Mendoza Martinez. Judge Vince Chhabria had allowed fraudulent-misrepresentation claims to proceed, finding the Autopilot name plausibly misleading. Terms were not disclosed.
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