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Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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So as expected, and as has been the case with almost every case where someone blames FSD or Autopilot, the guy has just been lying through his teeth.
It’s like the people who go and scratch up teslas without realising that they’re on camera. Everything these cars do is logged in a black box type manner. You will not win in court by attempting to say it did something it didn’t.
If they were telling the truth, it almost sounds like a seizure.
Yep, sounds like it - in which case the car did nothing wrong, and it would have happened no matter what car he was driving.
non tesla options do have better sensors and may have handled collision detection better
I don’t know if any car is going to override the driver when their foot is to the floor on the pedal.
Well, 10 year old Skoda Fabia (something like VW Polo, small, cheap car) at work does exactly that. So yes?
So it physically won’t let you run into anything?
Well, probably not. Can't be 100% sure since it's not really a thing I'd try to proove in a company car. But it hit the brakes couple times when I was approaching car in front of me too fast for cars liking. And it hit them quite hard, accompanied with alerting sound.
that’s literally how collision detection works
it force brakes
the problem is tesla cheaps out on the sensor suite to save money
Your car would not stop you flying off the road into a house while you have your foot to the floor and going 75mph.
the car can indeed make a difference braking at 75mph
It wouldn’t prevent an accident like this.
visual only isn’t a good thing, when the whole rest of the industry and multiple experts tell you this will kill people
then you proceed to have an outsized crash record and kill people
Not even a black box really, it is stored in the Tesla cloud.
Yeh I was talking about the manner in which everything is recorded :)