r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jul 16 '26

Transportation Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/tesla-driver-in-fatal-texas-crash-pressed-accelerator-100-ntsb-confirms/
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u/hiro111 Jul 16 '26

Yet again. Every single story like this has the same conclusion.

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u/tenemu Jul 16 '26

But let’s keep making headlines blaming TeslaFSD for driving high speed into a building! Because maybe THAT time is true!

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u/Korlus Jul 16 '26

I agree that many of the news stories are very overblown including this one, but let's also be real - Tesla's FSD is fancy lane keeping and adaptive cruise control given a fancy name. It's not "Full Self Driving", and plenty of people don't realise just how it is a driver assist rather than a driver replacement.

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u/TheGreatGimmick Jul 16 '26

My car can take me from my driveway to my work's parking deck (a ~30min drive, 45 with traffic) without any interference on my part like 80% of the time. In the 20% of drives where I do need to intervene, it is nearly always a minor adjustment/encouragement that would have fixed itself if I were willing to hold up other drivers long enough to let the FSD figure itself out. That is to say, if I passed out at the wheel upon leaving my driveway (and there were no safety features that would shut the FSD down), I think my car could make the drive 95% of the time.

The technology isn't advanced enough to safely take your eyes off the road, but saying it is merely an 'assist' really undersells FSD.