A Tesla driver blames FSD for nearly causing a train crash, raising concerns about the system's safety and driver complacency.

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.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      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).

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        7 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.