KayLeadfootMay 23, 2025

Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary)

Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips... #tesla #autonomy #fsd #selfdriving #avs

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Video: Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary)

A 2025 Tesla Model 3 drives off of a rural road, clips a tree, loses a tire, flips over, and comes to rest on its roof. Luckily, the driver is alive and well, able to post about it on social media. The problem? The car was driving itself in Full Self-Driving. The subtitle from the

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Show threadSkyrmirMay 23, 2025
I use autopilot all the time on my boat. No way in hell I’d trust it in a car. They all occasionally get suicidal. Mine likes to lull you into a sense of false security, then take a sharp turn into a channel marker or cargo ship at the last second.
Show threadEcho Dot
Isn’t there a plane whose autopilot famously keeps trying to crash into the ground. The general advice is to just not let it do that, well it looks like it’s about to crash into the ground, pull up instead.
May 23, 2025 at 5:04amWeb
Show threadkameecodingMay 23, 2025
The Being 787 Max did that when the sensor got faulty and there was no redundancy for the sensor’s because that was in an optional addon package
Show threadmbtrhcsMay 23, 2025
Even worse, the pilots and the airlines didn’t even know the sensor or associated software control existed.
Show threadSkyrmirMay 23, 2025
Pretty sure that’s the Boeing 777 and they discovered that after a crash off Brazil.
Show threadGamingChairModelMay 23, 2025

All the other answers here are wrong. It was the Boeing 737-Max.

They fit bigger, more fuel efficient engines on it that changed the flight characteristics, compared to previous 737s. And so rather than have pilots recertify on this as a new model (lots of flight hours, can’t switch back), they designed software to basically make the aircraft seem to behave like the old model.

And so a bug in the cheaper version of the software, combined with a faulty sensor, would cause the software to take over and try to override the pilots and dive downward instead of pulling up. Two crashes happened within 5 months, to aircraft that were pretty much brand new.

It was grounded for a while as Boeing fixed the software and hardware issues, and, more importantly, updated all the training and reference materials for pilots so that they were aware of this basically secret setting that could kill everyone.