A Tesla Model X owner who had FSD (Supervised) v13 installed on his vehicle, posted the dashcam footage of his vehicle involved in a chain accident. This is the first-ever FSD v13 Tesla accident on record — most probably FSD v12 included.
We didn’t come across a Tesla Full Self-Driving Autopilot accident this year. Tesla owners in the US and Canada drove their cars on FSD v12 and v13 around 1 billion miles this year alone.
According to the owner who was responsible for supervising FSD v13, his Tesla vehicle handled the accident better than the following 4 cars whose human drivers crashed behind one after the other.
I am probably the first accident to happen on v13.2.1 😢
— Bradford Ferguson (@bradsferguson) December 17, 2024
FSD was not at fault and handled the situation perfectly. I did not take over.
I got rear-ended when traffic suddenly stopped up ahead. The Tesla came to a perfect stop exactly how I would have done it.
Front cam👇1/x pic.twitter.com/wrBaD4IwXz
Bradford Ferguson’s Tesla Model X recently received the latest FSD v13.2.1 update. This new Autopilot Full Self-Driving (FSD) software update brought several new improvements to the already refined FSD v13 stack.
Although the Tesla Model X was rear-ended by the vehicles driving behind, FSD v13 stopped almost 4 feet behind the car in front of it. Tesla Autopilot FSD handled the situation perfectly, acted in time, and applied automatic braking at the right moment to avoid a frontal collision.
Interestingly, the owner who was supervising FSD v13 didn’t intervene at all and let FSD make every decision in this scenario.
Bradford posted a muti-post discussion thread on X (Twitter) and also shared the videos from multiple cameras showing what actually happened in this multi-car rear-end collision.
“I got rear-ended when traffic suddenly stopped up ahead. The Tesla came to a perfect stop exactly how I would have done it,” Bradford wrote on X.
“FSD was not at fault and handled the situation perfectly. I did not take over,” he explained further.
Safety is at the core of Tesla (TSLA) not just when engineering the physical structure and design of their vehicles. It’s Tesla’s top priority when it comes to vehicle software, especially, Autopilot and FSD features.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has iterated this many times over. The result, the Model X occupant was not harmed in this incident and FSD v13.2.1 made the right decision at the right time to mitigate further damage to the vehicle and its occupants.
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