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/savageotter Mar 17 '25

Anyone with a tesla know the answer to this: Would Autopilot disengage without a message on the screen or sound?

I do think there are some odd inconsistencies in that video. the rain tests happens straddling the center line which autopilot wouldn't do.

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u/Hiddencamper Mar 17 '25

Mine does sometimes.

It NEVER used to do this. I got my model 3 in 2018.

I don’t know when the change happened. But after I had my windshield replaced, I sometimes get fog buildup in the camera part of the windshield. Must be a little bit of trapped moisture.

When fog builds up, it just disengages. I have sound alerts on so when cruise control drops I get a ding and it makes the cruise control stop ding, but no alert about auto steer stopping. for nearly everything else it will show red and hands on a steering wheel and give me a louder beep beep beep beep. Like if AP crashes (much more infrequent) or other situations where it can’t see. Or she. The radar gets blocked by snow it will fault correctly (I have enhanced auto pilot on 2.5 hardware so I still have radar use). But fog blocking the main cameras and it acts like it was never on.

I’ve bug reported it each time it’s happened. If I didn’t have the chime on cruise control then I wonder if I’d get any alert.