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A video that went viral on Reddit shows a Tesla Model 3 with its so-called "Full Self-Driving" driver assistance feature turned on veering off a country road, crashing into some fencing, and flipping onto its roof.An image shared by Wally, a Tesla owner in Alabama, shows the aftermath: deployed airbags, smashed windows, and a ripped-up metal wire fence.It's unclear what actually caused the crash, as there's nothing in particular that stands out as far as road conditions. The vehicle drives over several shadows being cast on the road by nearby trees, and a truck can be seen driving in the opposite direction just before the driver assistance feature goes haywire.It's yet another baffling incident involving Tesla's controversial driver assistance software, which has already drawn plenty of scrutiny from regulators after being linked to countless crashes and dozens of deaths.It's particularly harrowing, considering the Tesla is planning to roll out a robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in less than a month's time, highlighting that the Elon Musk-led company may still be woefully unprepared and putting the public at risk. The company's misleadingly-named Full Self-Driving feature still requires drivers to be able to take over control at any time.However, that requirement still appears to fly over the heads of many of Tesla's customers."I used FSD every chance I could get I actually watched YouTube videos to tailor my FSD settings and experience," Wally told Electrek. "I was happy it could drive me to Waffle House and I could just sit back and relax while it would drive me on my morning commute to work.""I was driving to work had Full Self-Driving on. The oncoming car passed, and the wheel started turning rapidly, driving into the ditch, and side-swiping the tree, and the car flipped over," he added. "I did not have any time to react."Fortunately, he only incurred a cut to his chin that required seven stitches.His Model 3 featured Tesla's latest Hardware 4 onboard computer, running the latest version of FSD.Despite Musk's promises of kicking off a driverless ride-hailing service in a matter of weeks, we're still likely many years from Musk's promise of having hundreds of thousands of truly self-driving Teslas on the road.In a recent podcast interview, the company's head of Autopilot and AI software, Ashok Elluswamy, admitted that its driving tech is still a "couple of years" behind the likes of Waymo.Considering how easily cars can still crash in the absence of any apparent dangers with FSD turned on, Elluswamy may have a point.More on self-driving: Terrifying Footage Shows Cybertruck on Self-Driving Mode Swerve Into Oncoming TrafficShare This Article

Nearly ten years ago in 2015, rising tech entrepreneur Elon Musk made a bold announcement: Tesla vehicles would be fully driving themselves by 2017.The billionaire was talking about vehicles with level 5 autonomy — a designation by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) commonly used as the benchmark for a full self-driving car that can drive where its passengers please with no intervention.He repeated those claims in January 2016, saying "summon should work anywhere connected by land and not blocked by borders" within two years. For example, if you're in Los Angeles and your Tesla is in New York, you'd be able to summon it to you from across the country — at least according to his vision, which many took as gospel.By June of that year, Musk called level 5 autonomy a "solved problem." He did so again in 2017. And again in 2018. Then the next year. And the year after that.You probably see where this is going.Now in 2025, Tesla isn't looking meaningfully closer to Level 5 autonomy than in 2015. Though Tesla rolled out its Autopilot features en masse that same year, it's only achieved SAE Level 2 — enough for a driver to "take their hands off the wheel and let their vehicle take control when driving in certain conditions." (That hasn't stopped numerous motorists from overestimating the system's capabilities and dying as a result.)That isn't likely to change anytime soon, according to an intriguing insider: Tesla's head of Autopilot and AI software, Ashok Elluswamy.The Tesla official was speaking on the Gobinath Podcast, an Indian-English interview show, where he admitted the EV company is still way behind its competitors — despite over a decade of self-driving development."Technically, Waymo is already performing," Elluswamy admitted, referencing Google's autonomous vehicle program. "We are lagging by maybe a couple of years."This is despite Tesla's — also long-promised — fully self-driving Robocab service supposedly going live in Austin, Texas this coming June. It's not understood how this will work, as Tesla would need to demonstrate a vehicle capable of driving itself at SAE Level 4 to transport riders without the need for human intervention.So far, Musk has been uncharacteristically silent on the prospects of a Level 4 vehicle.Late in 2024, Greg McGuire, managing director of the autonomous vehicle research facility at the University of Michigan, told SAE Media that Tesla "is not — from what I've seen — ready for general Level 4 operation.""Will they be there by 2027? At [UofM], we still think there's a couple of key scientific barriers," McGuire said.That makes Musk's ever-stretching timeline for full self-driving — let alone a Robocab network — tenuous at best, and an absurd fantasy at worst.Still, a billionaire can dream.Share This Article