This Is Your Tesla Crash Mega Thread

We’ve been following the spate of Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) and Autopilot crashes with some interest and more than a little ire.

We believe that driver-assistance systems make driving safer and less fatiguing, but it’s clear that FSD and Autopilot are being represented to -- and taken by -- the public as way more capable than they are, and the sheer number of crashes involving Teslas using (and drivers mis-using) these systems bears this out.

We’ve decided to consolidate all of these stories into one place, because, speaking frankly, if we gave every FSD- or Autopilot-related incident its own post, we’d have to rename our publication from MotorTrend to TeslaFSDAutopilotCrashTrend.

Tesla fans, before you send angry emails, keep this in mind: In June ’21, NHTSA ordered automakers to report crashes involving Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) like FSD. (Yep, that’s right—of the six SAE-defined levels from 0, no automation, to 5, full automation, Tesla’s so-called "full self driving" is only Level 2, and therefore requires constant driver monitoring and is limited in its abilities to mostly acceleration, braking, and steering on certain marked roads.)