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Dan O'Dowd

@realdanodowd
7 posts
2025-08-02
Naibel Benavides should still be alive. Tesla Autopilot killed her because it was engaged on a road that Tesla knew it wasn't safe on. The NTSB ordered Tesla to restrict Autopilot use to the freeways it was designed for in 2016 and again in 2019 after two fatal crashes with [video]
2025-08-02 View on X
Washington Post

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages

Awards $329 Million In Damages Aarian Marshall / Wired : Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Tesla found partially liable for a deadl...

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2025-06-20
“When we deploy the cars in Austin...we will geofence it” - Elon Musk, May 2025 “If you need a geofence you do not have real self-driving” - Elon Musk, April 2019 [video]
2025-06-20 View on X
Financial Times

Tesla's robotaxi service will launch in Austin with just ~10 cars that are geofenced to avoid challenging intersections and monitored by backup teleoperators

Autonomous ride-hailing service to make tentative debut in Austin, Texas, with only about 10 cars

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2025-02-11
BYD's version of FSD, God's Eye, will be installed on all models for free. Customers will be able to purchase a BYD Seagull, with God's Eye, for just $9,600. Meanwhile Tesla hopes consumers will buy the car and then pay an extra $8,000 for defective “Full Self-Driving” software. [image]
2025-02-11 View on X
Financial Times

Chinese EV maker BYD unveils a “God's Eye” self-driving system and aims to install it on its entire lineup, including its ~$9,600 Seagull hatchback

Tesla rival will equip hatchback on sale for less than $10,000 with features usually found only on upscale vehicles

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2024-12-15
Elon Musk's regulatory capture of NHTSA means the only government crash data the public has on Tesla's defective self-driving software might be coming to an end.  NHTSA will be utterly hamstrung without this data, which had led to 10 investigations and nine safety recalls.
2024-12-15 View on X
Reuters

Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation

#DOGE #musk  —  www.reuters.com/business/aut... @lorifontanes : just like pregnancy health outcomes & gun violence, data on #selfdriving #car crashes shouldn't be suppressed & is e...

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2024-10-11
Robotaxi day was a total Snoozefest. After over 10 years of Full Self-Driving development, @Tesla is limited to a 20-30 acre geofenced 5mph ride on a preprogrammed, premapped and heavily rehearsed route with no traffic and no pedestrians. 1950s Disneyland guests would be
2024-10-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027”

1,028,294 viewsStreamed live 6 hours ago  —  Lady: “I want two drinks” … Gabe Lerman / Pivot to AI : Elon's double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trus...

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Robotaxi day was a total Snoozefest. After over 10 years of Full Self-Driving development, @Tesla is limited to a 20-30 acre geofenced 5mph ride on a preprogrammed, premapped and heavily rehearsed route with no traffic and no pedestrians. 1950s Disneyland guests would be
2024-10-11 View on X
Business Insider

Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

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2022-11-14
Read my interview with @washingtonpost on The Dawn Project's campaign to ban @Tesla Full Self-Driving and make computers safe for humanity. https://dawnproject.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
Washington Post

A profile of Dan O'Dowd, who made a fortune with his embedded systems OS company and is now obsessed with exposing Tesla's FSD beta as incomplete and unsafe

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : Tweets: @gerritd , @realdanodowd , @gartenberg , and @niubi Tweets: Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Dan O'Dowd says Tesla's “full self-driving” te...

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