Overview

• The Dryerman family filed suit on June 24, 2025, alleging their 2024 Model S veered off New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway in September 2024, killing three occupants.
• The complaint asserts a defective lane-keeping design and a failure of the vehicle’s automatic emergency braking system caused it to leave its lane.
• Tesla recalled over two million cars in late-2023 to add Autopilot safeguards, but the 2024 Model S involved in the crash was excluded.
• An NHTSA analysis identified a critical safety gap between drivers’ expectations of Level 2 systems and the actual capabilities of Tesla’s Autopilot technology.
• The lawsuit renews criticism that Tesla’s marketing of its Supervised Full Self-Driving suite overstates the system’s autonomy and safety.