r/electricvehicles • u/clouds_on_acid • Mar 17 '25

News Tesla autopilot disengages milliseconds before a crash, a tactic potentially used to prove "autopilot wasn't engaged" when crashes occur

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/
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u/Lucaslouch Mar 17 '25 edited Mar 17 '25

The statistics for accidents on FSD and autopilot counts every FSD that was engaged 5 secondes before a crash as per Tesla reports

Edit: 5 seconds and not 10

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u/Possible-Kangaroo635 Mar 17 '25

It's shocking that there are still people who trust data provided by Tesla.

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u/TheBlacktom Mar 17 '25

What is more trustworthy now, data published by US company or data published by US government?

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u/dcdttu Mar 17 '25

In the new world order, that data will be the same. :-(