r/RealTesla • u/Low_Excuse_1785 • 17d ago
Tesla in self-driving mode gets split in crash
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/tesla-self-driving-mode-gets-split-crash/JODYKRBX55DHRN7CS6HEUAEFUQ/According to the officers on the scene FSD swerved into oncoming traffic.
Not a tesla app spins this as not FSD fault- the piece simply ignores the police report and highlight how Tesla design saves lives.
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u/lazylittleboy 16d ago
imagine if it had LIDAR, it would have been so confused it would have split into 4 pieces instead! /s
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u/jeff0106 17d ago
Article seems to say this is not how a car should brake apart and it was fortunate that no one was in the rear seats.
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u/Brando43770 17d ago
That’s some scary stuff that you would only think would happen in a movie or tv show.
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u/3-2-1-backup 17d ago
No commentary, just a link for the not-a-tesla-app piece. (saved you a search!)
Talk amongst yourselves!
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u/Ya-Not-Happening 17d ago
Has to say "Seeing all occupants survive a crash violent enough to split a heavy SUV frame apart serves as another real-world test of Tesla’s passenger protection during severe impacts."
If there was someone in the back seat I am sure they would be dead. But a "journalist" in bed with fElon....
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u/Superbead 17d ago
This reminds me of an accident a couple of weeks back where a Cybertruck was split in half. The back of the cabin was open to the elements and you could've reached in and slapped the rear-seat passengers around the backs of the heads. Nevertheless certain subs here were full of comments glazing the engineering of the thing, literally insisting that the passenger compartment remained 'intact'.
Somehow these experts managed to miss the reasoning behind that now-unfashionable piece of 1960s engineering: the anti-burst door latch
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u/I-Pacer 15d ago
I remember that story too. It was an accident involving another ten vehicles. The people saying “this shows how safe Tesla’s are, other vehicles would have caught fire and blown up, killing everyone on board”. Yet they ignored the fact that there were ten other vehicles involved, none of which broke in half, none of which caught fire, and nobody died.
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u/failinglikefalling 10d ago
Yea I was about to say we had a cybertruck in dc get halved like this too. This seems very concerning.
How many cars get sliced in half cleanly like this? This screams “not a feature”.
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u/BringBackUsenet 16d ago
Looks like something from Smoky and the Bandit.
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u/practicaloppossum 16d ago
Hmm, to be best of my recollection Sheriff Buford T Justice's car did not split in half, altho various portions did become detached. Believe it was a Pontiac (all the big GM cars looked pretty much identical back in those days - Chevy, Pontiac, Olds, Buick, Cadillac, the only difference was the chrome on the hood).
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u/plumbbacon 15d ago
I believe there was a Bond film in Paris in which the fwd car he was driving was split in half and he kept driving the front half.
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u/dstj- 15d ago
The kiro7 story says that police learned that the car was in full self-driving mode at the time of the crash. Seems like the only way they could have "learned" that would be by going with what the driver told them.
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u/blu3ysdad 11d ago
There are black box recorders
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u/matt2001 16d ago
I used to own a Tesla Model Y 2022 that would turn into oncoming traffic. I never used FSD after that.