Questions over safety of Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ system after string of crashes

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Three times in the past four months, William Stein, a technology analyst at Truist Securities, has taken Elon Musk up on his invitation to try the latest versions of Tesla’s vaunted “Full Self-Driving” system. His most recent test-drive earlier this month, Stein said, left his 16-year-old son, who accompanied him, “terrified.” Stein’s experiences, along with a Seattle-area Tesla crash involving Full Self-Driving that killed a motorcyclist in April, have drawn the attention of federal regulators. It also pushed Tesla to recall Full Self-Driving in 2023 because, in “certain rare circumstances,” the agency said, it can disobey some traffic laws, raising the risk of a crash. Stein told investors, though, they should determine for themselves whether Full Self-Driving, Tesla's artificial intelligence project “with the most history, that's generating current revenue, and is being used in the real world already, actually works.”