TESLA DRIVER SAYS AUTOPILOT FAILED TO RECOGNIZE RAILRAOAD CROSSING-SHARES VIDEO OF CAR NEARLY HITTING TRAIN

A Tesla car owner shared a video on an owners’ forum of their car nearly driving head-on into a passing train at a rail crossing while in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode.

The video shows the car driving in heavy fog down a road that initially looks clear except for a couple of lights in the distance. 

After about five seconds, it’s clear that the lights at the end of the road are mounted on a crossbar in front of rail tracks, where a train carrying cargo is passing.

Despite the train being visible on the dashcam recording for a couple of seconds, the car continues heading straight towards the track until the driver manually takes control, slamming under and through the crossbar to swerve to a stop as the train passes by.

According to the poster, he’s looking for a lawyer to take the case but hasn’t had much luck yet because he wasn’t injured in the crash, despite a picture he posted showing the car’s wheel bent at a more than 90-degree angle and the front hood dinged up. 

“Jurors have consistently favored Tesla in past Autopilot cases citing the inattentiveness of drivers, not the design faults,” one user called Tam posted on the TMC thread.