Tesla's full self-driver reveals his scary page in the crash video

About two months ago, a Tesla owner drove his model 3 in FSD mode (full self-driving) in Alabama when the car suddenly crashed from the street, crashed and turned upside down. The driver suffered a chin injury, but was fine. The owner shared a video of the car that was left on the left, a video with a amazed Tesla tester. (Go to the 30-second mark).

Since Teslas FSD was launched for the first time in 2020, we have heard of hundreds of not fatal crashes, in which Tesla's “autopilot” FSD software and 51 reported deaths were involved, 44 of which had later checked the studies of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Teslas FSD naming is actually a miscilation

In a story of Reuters in October 2024, the publication reported that after four collisions and a fatal crash in Arizona, the NHTSA opened an investigation of 2.4 million Tesla vehicles in 2023. A driver aid system that requires constant monitoring of a human driver. “

Tesla calls his well-known autonomous driving system “full-self-drive”, which is actually a wrong name. Despite its title, FSD is still defined as level 2 driver assistant system and is not completely self-driving. The drivers are expected to remain attentive at any time and be ready to take control. This is one reason why Tesla recently “monitored” the name. According to Tesla, the driver is responsible for the behavior of the car, even if FSD is activated.

Interestingly, Tesla only published a contribution to X last week, in which it commented that the drivers only have to “sit back and watch” the road when using their FSD.

The driver paid attention, but had no time to react

This is exactly what Wally, a Tesla Model 3 owner in Toney, Alabama, did when his car suddenly turned off the street and fell off in March of this year. The driver was aware that, although he had included the FSD of the car, he had to attentive and was ready to take control immediately if something unusual happened.

Wally explained: “I used FSD for every chance that I could get. I actually saw YouTube videos to adapt my FSD settings and experiences. I was glad that it could lead me to the waffle house and I could just sit back and relax while it would go to work on my morning.”

Wally said that he had no time to react even though he made aware of and a quick look at the video shows how quickly the FSD system can be. He said: “I drove to work and had FSD on. The oncoming car drove past, and the bike turned quickly and drove into the ditch, lowered a tree and the car turned. I had no time to react.”

What caused the malfunction? This is difficult to determine

From the point of view of this writer, it seems as if Wathys Tesla had broken off as soon as he felt the transition from the oncoming pickup when his car ran a second break after the truck's expiry. If it had turned on a second earlier, his car would have switched on his head with the truck. But there were other shadows on the street and a tortoisel that could have been triggered for unexpected reaction.

Wally explained that he used Tesla FSD V13.2.8 on hardware 4, Tesla's latest FSD software. He asked that Tesla sent him the data from his car to understand what happened better.

As you can see from the video, the driver had less than a second to react what Tesla's assertion encounters that the driver can take control if the system suddenly falls down. The driver here doesn't seem to be to blame. The car is. According to what we saw in this incident, it seems that Tesla had to return to the drawing board and rethink his FSD system, especially since it plans to whirl this self-driving technology on robotaxis in June.

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