Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD, exposes supervision problem

https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/former-uber-self-driving-chief-tesla-fsd-crash-supervision-problem/

#tesla #crash

Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD, exposes supervision problem

Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO and the former head of Uber’s self-driving car division, totaled his Tesla Model X while using...

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**VERY glad the guy and his kids are okay, but it would have been something else if the Uber self-driving chief had been incinerated or killed by a self driving car. 🤔

"...What makes this account particularly striking is Krikorian’s background. At Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, he ran the team building autonomous vehicles and trained human safety drivers on exactly when and how to intervene when a self-driving system fails...."

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LOL this is the problem with relying on AI tools, as well...

"...His core argument: Tesla is asking humans to supervise a system that is specifically designed to make supervision feel pointless. As he puts it, an unreliable machine keeps you alert, and a perfect machine needs no oversight, but one that works almost perfectly creates a trap where drivers trust it just enough to stop paying attention.

The research backs this up. Psychologists call it the “vigilance decrement”, monitoring a nearly perfect system is boring, boredom leads to mind-wandering, and drivers need 5 to 8 seconds to mentally reengage after an automated system hands control back. But emergencies unfold faster than that...."

#AI

@ai6yr It’s the exact opposite of the Tullock's spike thought experiment.

“…in which Tullock suggested that if governments were serious about reducing road casualties, they should mandate that a sharp spike be installed in the center of each car's steering wheel, to increase the probability that an accident would be fatal to the driver. Tullock's idea was that the normal process of risk compensation would then lead to safer driving by the affected drivers, thereby actually reducing driving fatalities.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock?wprov=sfti1#Tullock's_spike

Gordon Tullock - Wikipedia