South Lake Tahoe Tesla Collision Kills Subaru Driver and Infant
A head-on crash involving a Tesla Model 3 and Subaru Impreza in South Lake Tahoe on July 5, 2023, killed 17-year-old Andy Martinez and, six days later, three-month-old Charlie Chhim. Federal regulators sent crash investigators because automated-driving assistance was suspected, but the available initial police records did not establish that the technology caused the collision.
Gardena Tesla Autopilot Collision Kills Two at Intersection
A Tesla Model S using Autopilot ran a red light in Gardena, California, on December 29, 2019, striking a Honda Civic and killing Gilberto Alcazar Lopez and Maria Guadalupe Nieves-Lopez. The Tesla driver pleaded no contest to felony vehicular manslaughter and received probation; no court found Tesla itself criminally responsible.
Acton Family Double Homicide and Reported ChatGPT Searches
Sudha Venkatesan, 45, and Siddharth Aravind, 14, were found dead in Acton, Massachusetts, on August 11, 2026. Prosecutors charged a teenage family member with both murders and said investigators had identified ChatGPT searches involving fictional accounts of family violence. The accused pleaded not guilty; no finding attributes the homicides to ChatGPT.