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by plandis 4 hours ago
The title is misleading and shifts blame from the driver to the machine.

Ultimately the driver is responsible.

Edit: For the folks who seem to think that this is marketed as unsupervised self driving, from Teslas own website it states

“Currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.”

https://www.tesla.com/fsd

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> Ultimately the driver is responsible

Recent lawsuits [1] seem to suggest both are. The driver committed manslaughter and should go to jail. The company sold a dangerous product that killed someone and should pay massive damages.

[1] https://electrek.co/2026/04/16/tesla-facing-up-to-14-billion...

You might not think so, but there are many people that believe Tesla marketing that FSD is better than paying attention. I struggle convincing my parents that they shouldn't drive if they are likely to fall asleep behind the wheel and it's helpful to categorize an FSD crash separately from a human driver crash.
Being responsible and being at fault are two different things.
The tell is the the name. Full Self Driving.
But the car was fully self driving right? Fully, as completely driving by itself? If the person in the front seat is driving, the feature isn't really "full self driving" now is it?
If full self driving was active then the driver was Tesla.
If it is Full-Self Driving, the machine is the driver. The company providing is ultimately responsible.
Looks accurate to the content to me.