Tesla says FSD was off before Cybertruck crash — but the video tells a different story https://electrek.co/2026/03/18/tesla-cybertruck-fsd-crash-video-musk-logs-overconfidence/

After the video went viral, Musk posted “Logs show driver disengaged Autopilot 4 seconds before crashing.” Tesla propagandists ran with this, framing the incident as proof that the media unfairly blames FSD for crashes that happen under manual driving. But this framing misses the point entirely.

Saint Amour’s attorney acknowledged that his client disengaged the system before impact. The reason she disengaged it is the critical detail: the system was already failing... she tried to take control, but it was too late to correct the vehicle’s trajectory.

The Cybertruck is approaching the overpass curve at full highway speed with no sign of slowing down or turning. The system appears to have completely missed the curve. By the time the driver realized FSD was not going to navigate the turn correctly at that speed and grabbed the wheel, the vehicle was already committed to a straight-line path into the barrier. 4 seconds is not enough time to correct a multi-ton truck traveling at highway speed toward a concrete wall.

This incident is a textbook example of what we’ve been documenting at Electrek for years, the fundamental flaw in Tesla’s approach to “supervised” autonomy. Just yesterday, we covered how former Uber self-driving chief Raffi Krikorian crashed his Tesla on FSD and wrote a damning essay in The Atlantic about the “vigilance decrement” problem. The research is clear: drivers need 5 to 8 seconds to mentally reengage after an automated system fails. Emergencies unfold faster than that.

Meta discontinues end-to-end encryption on Instagram

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Oh please that was like a 3 on a scale from 1 to Safety Truck

I saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING

(View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)

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adblockers are security and privacy tools.

ideally, we kill the whole ad/tracking industry but i don't see that happening any time soon.

Under the Trump administration, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.

In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%.

Read our full investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cfpb-experian-transunion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet. Judged ordered them removed from the internet on Friday. #USPol #DOGE (Links to download below from IA)

The videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian.”

https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/

Torrent file to download them from IA: https://archive.org/download/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH_archive.torrent

Watch the DOGE depositions at IA: https://archive.org/details/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH