FSD Crashes into California Highway Patrol

A video was posted by the official Facebook page of the California Highway Patrol (CHP), which reports on an October 13, 2026 accident. The video details that CHP Solano officers were responding to a fatal accident that happened on I-80 when a Tesla slammed into the accident scene and into a CHP patrol car with an officer inside. As a result, the already fatal scene nearly added two more fatalities, with both California officers seriously injured after the accident. Thankfully, the officers have already been released, while the Tesla driver sustained only minor injuries.

This all happened despite the fact that the CHP closed four lanes of the Interstate and diverted traffic to a slow lane. Part of CHP's efforts to investigate the scene also included the addition of high-visibility cones and markings, as well as emergency vehicles with lights on. The driver told the CHP that he was asleep behind the wheel with FSD fully engaged, yet the diverted lanes and emergency obstacle lights weren't enough to alert the FSD and wake the sleeping driver, raising more concerns about FSD's true capabilities and safety. There's a footage showing the Tesla driving into the scene of the accident at highway speeds.

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[–] -1 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Drivers fall asleep and crash all the time, doesn't seem very newsworthy

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  • [–] 41 points 17 hours ago* (7 children)

    yeah normal people just push autopilot and sleep and drive into traffic all the time. Totally normal. Definitely nothing fucked up happening here with the operation of thousand pounds of metal flying around at 60 mph

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago* (3 children)

    I've watched a guy fall asleep driving at high speed on the highway in downtown Atlanta. Straight into the concrete median and the car practically exploded. Autopilot would have been an improvement over what happened with him falling asleep driving in a dumb car.

    Back when I was in my watching car crash video phase I seen so much dash cam footage of truck drivers falling asleep and causing accidents

    The introduction of autopilot is not the beginning of people falling asleep while driving cars.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago

    The point I believe you're missing is that people don't fall asleep on the road in a vacuum, it's due to a lack of stimulation.

    This is why many highways intentionally have zig-zagging designs. It keeps the driver engaged by making them always have to prepare for the next slight turn.

    Drive-assisting features that handle this level of tedium for the driver inherently encourage falling asleep on the road by removing this stimulation.

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  • [–] 20 points 14 hours ago*

    Read the entire comment chain, this is not relevant. This guy didn’t fall asleep at the wheel on accident, these people purposefully do this. They knowingly go to sleep with the auto-pilot on, they lie to each other that it's safe in their communities. It's the difference between accidental negligence leading to manslaughter vs. pre-meditated murder

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Sleeping while driving is dangerous, always has been, always will be. World without end

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  • [–] 30 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

    this is not like a normal non-self driving car, because normal people will pull over when they get tired (a few don't, which is irresponsible and dangerous but relatively rare compared to self-driving fans who think they don't need to drive while on auto-pilot). Someone accidentally falling asleep while driving is a qualitatively different phenomena from people knowingly going to sleep after they put their car on autopilot.

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