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Title: Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in Full
Self-Driving tests

Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:37:56 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/transportation/tesla...

A revealing demonstration with Tesla's Full Self-Driving mode is raising
concerns about whether fully autonomous cars are ready to hit the streets.
Tesla has reportedly pushed back the rollout of its upcoming all-electric,
fully autonomous car called the Cybercab, while a recent demonstration in
Austin, Texas showed a Tesla Model Y running through a school bus' flashing
lights and stop signs, and hitting child-size mannequins. The tests were
conducted by The Dawn Project, along with Tesla Takedown and ResistAustin,
and showed Tesla's Full Self-Driving software repeating the same mistake
eight times.

It's worth noting that Tesla's autonomous driving feature is formally known
as Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and "requires a fully attentive driver and
will display a series of escalating warnings requiring driver response."
Tesla even has a warning that says, "failure to follow these instructions
could cause damage, serious injury or death." However, it's not the first
time that Tesla's FSD software has found itself in hot water. The Dawn
Project, whose founder Dan O'Dowd is the CEO of a company that offers
competing automated driving system software, previously took out ads warning
about the dangers of Tesla's Full Self-Driving and how it would fail to yield
around school buses. In April 2024, a Model S using Full Self-Driving was
involved in a crash in Washington, where a motorcyclist died.

With anticipation building up for an eventual Cybercab rollout on June 22,
the company's CEO posted some additional details on X. According to Elon
Musk, Tesla is "being super paranoid about safety, so the date could shift."
Beyond that, Musk also posted that the "first Tesla that drives itself from
factory end of line all the way to a customer house is June 28."

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/tesla...
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