To make this story make sense:

Leon County is 40% non-white.

“The wheel rolled away autonomously, so FSD was achieved” - Elon

“this stunt worked” is relative.

Look at their . By comparison, Toyota moved 11-12 million.

Gravity is inevitable. 1.5 million units a year is a unsustainable failure if the stock price is $300+. They need to multiply it by something insane like 20x for the stock price to make sense.

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The fact that “it didn’t catch fire and the doors opened” is the measure of success means that the bar is really on the floor for Teslas.

For real though don’t run over the bar with a Tesla, if it goes through the battery, you’re toast

Happy Labor Day 😎

It’s a Cybertruck thing! If you look at photos of wrecks, you’ll see an inordinate number that tossed a wheel.

I was just thinking… last time this happened, in 2013, the NHTSA investigated 2 fires and Tesla issued a free fix.

I wonder what changed to make Tesla fear the NHTSA so little? :>

What, is carpentry illegal now…?

15 EVs ignited, 6 allowed to burn without mitigation, 9 they tried to extinguish, 2 of which reignited.

I’m famously bad at headlines, but it’s both an interesting study and a hard-to-distill-into-a-headline study.

That’s hilarious and I had never heard of it, sure enough, Volvo has a factory moose crash-test dummy.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/moose-crash-test-dummy-volvo/

y’all not got bendy bollards? most bollards are bendy.

is that just a Chicago thing? they don’t trust us with solid bollards, it would be a mass-casualty-incident instantly

A non-existent car is ALSO safer than a human-driven car, so it’ll sound weird coming from an automotive journalist, but I totally agree. There’s no car safer than a railway car.

The human safety supervisor of a Tesla Robotaxi who crashed was apparently sleep deprived and having a mental health episode, so, if you think self-driving cars will insulate you from human foibles, just you wait. The futures going to get real weird!

Broadly I agree, though. The goal is better-than-human. It really shouldn’t ever cross a solid line, though.

That was this case, it’s all self-reported so take it with a grain of salt, but it was interesting food for thought: https://electrek.co/2026/07/28/tesla-self-driving-manager-rolling-hazards-lawsuit/

I actually looked into that…!

The Google Maps interface lets you see when the street was imaged. It’s been that way since 2024, at least. A helpful Redditor shared the link to it.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VZRjSc325Kg7Vpq17

I’m bad as an automotive journalist. What I lack in skill, I make up for with effort and comedic timing

I’m honestly surprised that a Tesla Model Y fit in this gap. Maybe it ran over the first bollard a bit?

Edit: And, IDK, “managed to get out appropriately” in this case would unfortunately mean throwing it in reverse and doubling back through the cross-walk, I think. It’s never a good idea to run stuff over to get where you’re going.

This is how it do.

Also, hey, Taco gang, lfg!

2024, I didn’t ask the dealership guy what hardware powered it (because I don’t care), I reviewed it here actually: https://fuelarc.com/cars/review-2024-tesla-model-3-long-range-rwd/

I don’t see how it could have gotten much better with a vision-based solution, but who knows? Personally, it wasn’t in the same ballpark as acceptable quality for my use-case. I don’t expect incremental software patches will fix that to my satisfaction.

Again, I’m weird, never been in an accident and I drive a ton, I’m particular about my car not crashing because I used to be on an ambulance crew and treating car-crash victims really takes the shine off your apple.

Poor anticipation of turns and poor trailing distance. Didn’t spot many other vehicles on the road, too, that’s ultimately what made me pull the plug.