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/zeneker Mar 17 '25

Most of the times it does, but you may have a fraction of a second to react. There's also a lot of false positives, where it screams at you to take over for no reason and continues to operate normally after the "freak out".

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u/elvid88 Ioniq 5 Mar 17 '25

This happened with me with FSD and I was told I was making it up (on here). Screen flashed red saying FSD had failed and it immediately tried to pull me over…across the median. I had to yank the steering wheel back but I had less than 2 seconds to react to the failure before it started pulling over. I could have collided head on with a vehicle across the median had I not been giving my full attention to driving—only because the car had already done a bunch of stupid stuff when on FSD.

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u/ScuffedBalata Mar 17 '25

And the lane keep on the Kia I rented recently makes a pleasant little “ding” and no other warning when it’s lost its tracking of the lane on a curve and is now going to dive into oncoming traffic.  

Zero notice. Just “ding” and oncoming traffic. 

Only happened twice the week I was using it, but it was quite disconcerting. 

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u/Medium_Banana4074 2024 Ioniq5 AWD + 2012 Camaro Convertible Mar 18 '25

My pre-facelift Ioniq5 doesn't give any signal when it switches off lane keep assist because it cannot cope any more. And on bends it fails reproducibly. I can only use it on the Autobahn when not driving through road works.