Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Won’t Stop You From Hitting a Kid, Study Finds
Really, though, how many more times do we have to learn this?
Published 5 months ago in Wtf
Tesla vehicles offer a mode called “Full Self-Driving,” which, despite its name, is not actually full self-driving. Instead, the full name is “Full Self-Driving (Supervised),” meaning that you have to carefully monitor the car as it drives — and frequently fix its errors.
Sorry, but that doesn’t really feel like a “full” experience to me!
Making matters worse is the fact that this technology doesn’t actually work. As noted by Engadget, in a test, the car’s Full Self-Driving mode didn’t detect when it was next to a school bus with its stop signs up, and as a result, it hit a model child. It then proceeded to do this seven more times.
Forgive me, but I think the “killing kids” glitch should have been patched out before the wide release.
In 8 consecutive tests $TSLA Full Self-Driving 13.2.9 ran down child mannequins crossing the road while illegally blowing past a stopped school bus during our live FSD demo in Austin.
— Dan O'Dowd (@RealDanODowd) June 13, 2025
We’ve warned Tesla for 2.5 years. They’ve done nothing. Why isn’t somebody in jail? pic.twitter.com/56i06dAUod