WILMINGTON, Del./SAN FRANCISCO — A California proprietor of a Tesla Mannequin 3 sued the electrical automobile maker in a proposed class motion over automobiles out of the blue stopping for non-existent obstacles, calling it a “scary and harmful nightmare,” in accordance with the lawsuit.

Tesla has rushed its autonomous driving automobiles to market with unsafe expertise, together with its driver assistant system which the corporate calls Autopilot or Full Self-Driving, and its emergency braking system, in accordance with the lawsuit by Jose Alvarez Toledo of San Francisco.

This provides to rising public and regulatory scrutiny of Tesla’s driver assistant expertise, regardless of Tesla CEO Elon Musk promising full self-driving by this year-end.

“When the sudden unintended braking defect happens, they flip what is meant to be a security function into a daunting and harmful nightmare,” stated Toledo’s lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in federal courtroom within the northern district of California.

The lawsuit seeks class motion standing for all U.S. house owners or leasors of a Tesla that suffers from the sudden unintended braking defect.

Tesla didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for feedback.

In February, the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration opened an investigation into 416,000 Tesla autos over stories of surprising brake activation tied to Autopilot.

The lawsuit accused Tesla of fraudulently hiding the security dangers related to Autopilot, breaching its warranties, unfairly making the most of Autopilot and violating California’s unfair competitors regulation.

The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for bills to restore autos, diminished worth of Tesla automobiles and for a refund of the added value attributed to the Autopilot function, in accordance with the lawsuit.