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Tesla Driver Says He Was Asleep With FSD On When He Hit Police Car (www.yahoo.com)
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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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[–] 17 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

I can’t help but think this could be avoided if Elon would just stop with his view that cars should self drive based only off cameras rather than also using LiDAR or other sensors.

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  • [–] 21 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    I agree in general, but the more fundamental issue is that “full self-driving” doesn’t exist and it should be extremely and obviously illegal to even imply that it does, let alone that Teslas are capable of it. Even Waymos, which are more capable than Teslas of something that resembles actual self-driving, are limited to very specific geographies and are monitored at all times, with a human ready to step in to control them in the event they encounter anything remotely novel or unexpected.

    Cars cannot drive themselves, by which I mean that they can’t handle the edge cases that actually matter when it comes to driving. Better sensors would reduce the chances of this type of accident happening, but the most reasonable solution is to treat automatic driving technology the same way you would treat cruise control: something that helps drivers drive, not something that pretends to let the driver stop paying attention.

    One day we will likely be able to make self-driving systems that are at least good enough that they’re preferable to human drivers. Today is not that day, and until we do, we should be calling this type of technology “advanced cruise control” and “parking assist” and so on. Calling it “full self-driving” implies nothing less than the car being able to drive itself without needing a human, which means humans are going to intentionally take naps in their car instead of paying attention to the road.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Self driving actually becomes trivial if you put the cars on rails so they can only follow fixed routes. You could even electrify the rail or use overhead wires to supply electricity, which would make expensive batteries unnecessary. Then you just need to pre-plan the schedule and keep them away from unpredictable human-used roads so that they don't need to be in any place at the same time as another car. This can be done with some kind of external signaling system. Finally, you can decrease the number of vehicles by having some greater number of people able to fit in the car at a time. They can share space on the car which is great for meeting new people and for throughput generally, and can get on and off of it at various points along the fixed route. This also avoids the problem that all cars have where highway entrances and exits become a bottleneck when there are too many people alone in their cars.

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  • [–] 13 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    His irrational cheapness and obsession with reinventing already-solved things like door handles has legitimately gotten people killed and injured.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Don’t get me started on how the boring company and hyperloop are just TRAINS!

    He just ‘invented’ a worse version of trains.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 hours ago

    Calling them a worse version of trains is extremely generous.

    It’s a worse version of cars.

    It’s just cars on a road, except they can only travel at a low speed, no overtaking, no dynamic routing.

    Using golf carts instead of teslas would have been a better solution. Lime bikes are a more impressive innovation than his actually existing hyperloop.

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