Tesla Defeats Suit Alleging Frozen Touch Screen Caused Accident

Tesla Inc. convinced a federal judge in New York to toss a woman’s lawsuit alleging her 2021 Tesla Model 3’s touchscreen froze and caused her vehicle to crash.

Robyn Nicole Wilson-Wolf failed to offer expert evidence that “the Tesla touchscreen malfunctioned, caused the crash, or that other factors did not contribute,” Judge Nelson S. Román of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said Monday, granting summary judgment to Tesla.

Wilson-Wolf sued Tesla after she was involved in a one-car accident in 2022. The accident report said the vehicle hydroplaned, hit a center median, crossed over ...