A Tesla owner reported that he crashed his Cybertruck into a pole after hitting a curb while using Full Self-Driving, Tesla’s advanced driving assist system that Elon Musk claims will be unsupervised this year.
Challinger said that he was driving with FSD v13.2.4 on the right lane, which was ending and merging into the left lane, but the car failed to merge and hit the curb.
He said that he failed to react in time and take control of the Cybertruck:
This guy is lucky to be alive, and he is right. There’s a problem with people becoming complacent with FSD, and Tesla, and especially Elon Musk, are not doing enough to prevent that from happening.
If Tesla was developing FSD in a vacuum without Elon’s claims that it would be solved every year for the last 5 years and Tesla selling the software package to customers without any clear idea of when it can be achieved or on what hardware, it would be celebrated product.
Instead, it’s a product that is making Tesla lose credibility and potentially dangerous, as we see today.
I myself had the exact same problem that Challinger described where a lane ends, but FSD doesn’t detect it. It’s weird because it works most of the time so you can get this sentiment of complacency and give the system a chance to move. In this case, it evidently went too far.
Be careful out there and stop believing Elon Musk when he talks about self-driving.
