{"id":82554,"date":"2025-05-23T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82554"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:15:05","slug":"tesla-full-self-driving-veers-off-road-flips-car-scary-crash-driver-couldnt-prevent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82554","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Full Self-Driving veers off road, flips car in scary crash driver couldn’t prevent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Tesla vehicle on the latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised update suddenly veered off road and flipped the car upside down \u2013 creating a scary crash that the driver said he couldn\u2019t prevent.<\/p>\n

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We have seen many crashes involving Tesla\u2019s Supervised FSD over the years, but the vast majority of them have a major contributing factor in common: the driver is not paying attention or is not ready to take control.<\/p>\n

A common crash scenario with Tesla FSD is that the vehicle doesn\u2019t see an obstacle on the road<\/a>, like a vehicle, and crashes into it, even though the driver would have had time to react if they were paying enough attention.<\/p>\n

Despite its name, Full Self-Driving (FSD) is still considered a level 2 driver assist system and is not fully self-driving. It requires drivers to stay attentive at all times and for them to be ready to take control \u2013 hence while Tesla has more recently added \u2018Supervised\u2019 to the name.<\/p>\n

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According to Tesla, the driver is always responsible in a crash, even if FSD is activated.<\/p>\n

The automaker has implemented driver monitoring systems to ensure drivers\u2019 attention, but it is gradually relaxing those.<\/p>\n

Just today, Tesla released a post on X in which it said drivers just have to \u201clean back and watch the road\u201d when using FSD:<\/p>\n

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Sitting back and watching the road was exactly what Wally, a Tesla driver in Alabama, was doing when his car suddenly veered off the road in Toney, Alabama, earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Wally leased a brand new 2025 Tesla Model 3 with FSD and understood that he needed to pay attention. When talking with Electrek<\/em> yesterday, he said that he would regularly use the feature:<\/p>\n

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I used FSD every chance I could get I actually watched YouTube videos to tailor my FSD settings and experience. 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two months ago, he was driving to work on Tesla Full Self-Driving when his car suddenly swerved off the road. He shared the Tesla camera video of the crash:<\/p>\n

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Wally told Electrek<\/em> that he didn\u2019t have time to react even though he was paying attention:<\/p>\n

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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. I did not have any time to react.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The car ended up flipping upside down from the crash:<\/p>\n

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