A security guard stands under an umbrella at an Audi car seller in Shanghai on August 6, 2014.Johannes Eisele / Getty Images A couple in China is being sued by a car dealership after their daughter scratched the paint of more than 10 new vehicles sitting in the showroom.According to 7news Australia, the couple was accompanying their friend who was visiting the dealership, and brought along their three-year-old daughter. It wasnt until after they left that they found out their daughter had taken a stone and drawn into the paint of 10 new cars, including an Audi Q8.The father, referred to in reports only as Mr. Zhao, is being sued for 200,000 Chinese Yuan (CDN$37,500), according to the Lingui Peoples Court.The dealership says the vehicles can no longer be sold as new cars as a result of the damage, and that it may reevaluate the assessment if the vehicles values are found to have depreciated after their respray. If the dealership tried to still sell them as new cars, they could be sued for false advertising, and would have to compensate triple the purchase price if found guilty so it would rather not take that chance. The vehicles, although new, will have to be sold as used. According to the court, Mr. Zhao rejected the 200,000 RMB demand, but ended up reaching a settlement with the dealership of about 70,000 RMB (around CDN$13,000).The silver lining is that somebody out there is going to get a great deal on an Audi with fresh
Origin: Dad sued after toddler draws on dealer’s new Audis with a rock
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Tesla sued by family of Florida man killed in Autopilot crash
Tesla was sued for the second time in three months by the family of a car owner who was killed in a crash while using the driver-assistance system Autopilot.Jeremy Banner, 50, died when the Model 3 sedan he was driving failed to brake or steer to avoid a semi trailer that ran a stop sign on a Florida highway in March, according to the lawsuit, which also names the driver of the semi as a defendant.Banner had engaged the Autopilot system about 10 seconds before the collision.Representatives for Tesla didnt immediately respond to a request for comment on the suit, which was filed Thursday.The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report on the crash in May and said data from the vehicle showed Autopilot was active at the time of the incident. The preliminary data indicated that neither the driver nor the Autopilot system executed evasive maneuvers.Banner is survived by his wife and three children. Were not just talking about the consequences of this defect to the Banner family, which is horrific, Trey Lytal, a lawyer for the family, said during a press conference. These products are defective.Lytal compared Banners accident to that of Joshua Brown, a Tesla Model S owner who died in a similar crash involving a tractor trailer in 2016. The family of Walter Huang, an Apple Inc. engineer who died in a Model X last year in Mountain View, California, sued the company in
Origin: Tesla sued by family of Florida man killed in Autopilot crash
Ford sued for allegedly falsifying fuel economy ratings on F-150 trucks
Canadian auto sales were very strong through March, thanks to strong performers like the Ford F-150 – which itself saw sales increase 37 per cent. A lawsuit against Ford alleging the automaker falsified F-150 fuel economy tests is seeking US$1.2 billion in damages, The Detroit Free Press reports.The class action lawsuit was filed by Seattle law firm Hagens Berman on behalf of truck consumers and claims drivers of the truck could be paying up to US$2,000 extra in fuel over the vehicles lifetime as a result of the apparently falsified economy tests.The lawsuit estimates the lifespan of an F-150 is 150,000 miles (240,000 km).We did the math and based this lawsuit on our own independent research. Fords fuel economy promises are all smoke and mirrors, said Steve Berman, managing partner of Hagens Berman.Fords lies about the F-150 are masking the truth: Consumers are paying far more for these trucks than meets the eye. Over the lifetime of the vehicle, we believe F-150 owners are paying more than $2,000 more for fuel.The lawsuit is based on anonymous complaints about the way Ford estimates road load, which the EPA defines as the force imparted on a vehicle while driving at a constant speed over a smooth level surface from sources such as tire rolling resistance, driveline losses, and aerodynamic drag. This estimation is what the EPA uses to calculate fuel mileage.F-150 truck mileage has been overstated 15 per cent for highway mileage; and 10 per cent for city mileage, according to the lawsuit, via inaccurate drag and resistance figures (meant) to boost the vehicles EPA mileage ratings.The automaker has not been served the filing yet, and Ford spokesman T.R. Reid says what was announced today appears to be similar to two other filings by the same law firm in the same court. Id ask you not to confuse claims with merit.The lawsuit could expand to include other Ford
Origin: Ford sued for allegedly falsifying fuel economy ratings on F-150 trucks
Tesla sued over fatal crash blamed on autopilot navigation error
2018 Model X sits on display outside a Tesla showroom.David Zalubowski / AP Photo Tesla Inc. was sued by the family of a man who died as the result of a crash allegedly caused when the Autopilot navigation system of his 2017 Model X malfunctioned. The family of Walter Huang, 38, said in a complaint filed April 26 in California state court that the vehicle, which was sold as a “state-of-the-art” automobile, lacked safety features, such as an automatic emergency braking system. Such features are available on much less expensive vehicles from other carmakers, as well as on more recent Model Xs, Huang’s family said. The family also alleges that Tesla knew, or should have known, “that the Tesla Model X was likely to cause injury to its occupants by leaving travel lanes and striking fixed objects when used in a reasonably foreseeable manner.” The carmaker should have issued a recall or provided a warning “in light of the risk of harm,” the family said in the complaint. Huang died because “Tesla is beta testing its Autopilot software on live drivers,” B. Mark Fong, a lawyer for the family, said in a statement. “The Huang family wants to help prevent this tragedy from happening to other drivers using Tesla vehicles or any semi-autonomous vehicles.” Huang crashed on the morning of March 23, 2018, while driving on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, when the Tesla Autopilot allegedly turned the vehicle left, straight into the concrete median. He’s survived by his wife, two children, and his parents. The State of California Department of Transportation is also named as a defendant for failing to repair or restore a crash attenuator that had been damaged in a collision a week before Huang’s crash. The case is Huang v. Tesla Inc., 19CV346663, California Superior Court, Santa Clara
Origin: Tesla sued over fatal crash blamed on autopilot navigation error
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