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.

  • Shrank7242@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1114·
    6 months ago

    Well said and thanks for posting the examples. It’s something that bothers me about any social media kind of site. Especially here on Lemmy. Nobody gives a damn about the incredible amount of negligence the drivers must have. It immediately becomes an anti Elon circlejerk every time.

    It’s similar with news articles, which this post doesn’t even link to, most of the articles name drop Tesla or Elon just because otherwise it’s not a story. “Somebody hit a car / person / train because they weren’t paying attention to the road” isn’t story worthy. But as soon as doubt can be cast on an Elon company, it become a must post thing. I can’t stand Musks antics either, but he gets too much free rent in peoples mind. It’s wild

    /rant

    • baru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      At the same time, there’s too many people who say that Full Self Driving obviously doesn’t mean that the vehicle still fully drive itself. Though for unknown reasons it is totally fine to keep using the name Full Self Driving.

      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        22·
        6 months ago

        And that is between Tesla and the NTSB to sort even though I agree. The car itself doesn’t mince words describing it to you, and at the time you’re driving it, the required supervision is unambiguous.

        If it were called “Tesla Drive” or something else, everyone would still be here taking a shit on it nonetheless.

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
        37·
        6 months ago

        It’s called Full Self Driving (Supervised) nowdays. They changed the name.

        The vehicle is capable of driving you to the grocery store on the other side of the city and back, sometimes with zero interventions from the driver. If that’s not Full Self Driving then I don’t know what is.