Comment by code_naked

4 days ago

The Electrek article referenced is a better link: https://electrek.co/2026/07/01/tesla-semi-first-fatal-crash-...

Either way, the interesting bit is:

  The reported cause — a driver falling asleep — puts the focus on the truck’s safety systems, not any self-driving software.

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cyanydeez  4 days ago

which, of course, is bullshit. "self-driving" excludes the intervention of a person. The state of a person during "self-driving" should be meaningless.

If it is meaningful, then it's not "self-driving"

  • cwillu  4 days ago

    “It’s also important to be precise about what this is and isn’t. This was not an autonomous driving crash. Tesla does not offer Full Self-Driving on the Semi — it’s still test-fleet hardware, spotted validating sensors in California just days earlier — so the driver was likely in full manual control. A driver falling asleep is a human-fatigue failure, not a software one, and anyone folding this into the FSD debate is confusing the story.”