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Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train.

Nighttime dashcam footage from earlier this month in Ohio captured the harrowing scene: Doty's Tesla rapidly approaching a train with no apparent deceleration. He insisted his Tesla was in Full Self-Driving mode when it barreled towards the train crossing without slowing down.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just some insight from my pov. Fsd is marketed as FSD (Supervised). I don't agree with the jamming but it is what it is. I know it does janky stuff, it still forces you to pay attention. Do I believe this could happen, yes but do I doubt the driver always until proven otherwise.

I have had my model y yell at me to take control when I was already out of any auto/fsd mode. I have many downs and many ups. I agree that the car should actively steer you into the train. I was curious if anyone had a link to the dash footage or even to an article with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fsd is marketed as FSD (Supervised)

it is, now, it was not marketed with any kind of parenthetical qualifier until recently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Actually, it said Full Self Driving (BETA) until it was updated to (Supervised) recently.

If anything, the beta qualifier is actually better than just saying supervised since that term means not complete and still being developed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

never heard musk refer to it as anything but full self drive, no qualifiers.

companies concerned with safety wouldn't market the shit until it's safe (see mercedes apparent lead).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Mercedes Drive Pilot is hilariously limited system. It for example needs a car in front of it that it can follow or else it wont work. It also only works on limited number of hand-picked highways in California and Nevada.

There's a video on YouTube comparing FSD to Mercedes' equivalent driver assistant software (not the level 3 one) and it's not even a competition. The Mercedes system is completely unusable.