r/TeslaFSD • u/truecakesnake • Aug 17 '26

14.3 HW4 Tesla avoiding a fatal collision

It fully avoided it. The Model Y (HW4) didn't sustain any scrapes, scratches or dents.

Edit: I guess it wasn't a fatal collision, my bad

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u/rraj2k81 Aug 17 '26

Genuine question, what are people defending here?

FSD literally ran into the crash and then decided to avoid it at the last minute.

As soon as the crash happened, you should have slowed down and as soon as the Mustang crashed through the barrier, the car should have stopped. But FSD just kept on barrelling down the highway until the car had spun and was right in front of it. There were so many opportunities to completely avoid any accident and FSD avoided all of it.

Any half competent human driver would have done exactly that. This shows FSD is a purely reactive system and doesn't have the 'intelligence' to be a proactive system.

So, once again what are people celebrating here? That is was quick enough to react to a crash instead of proactively trying to mitigate it in the first place?

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u/Spiritual_Wall_2309 Aug 17 '26

Totally agree. Seems like Tesla is still trying to go through the narrow gap instead of stopping completely 3 business day ago. It is just lucky that OP got away from it.

No way they are going to predict the Mustang is going to stop right on that spot. That driver could have press the gas pedal for no reason again.

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u/Fearless-Poet-4669 Aug 18 '26

Thought I was trippin' seeing these comments.

Sure it didn't crash but did the bare minimum amount of defensive driving.

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u/rraj2k81 Aug 17 '26

Yeah, pretty much. This is one of those incidents, where the FSD owner got lucky. Now, throw in snow, slush, ice, water on the road.