One Tesla owner Italo Frigoli showed that the software failure was easily replicable. When NBC accompanied Frigoli to the same crossing where his car nearly plowed into a train over a month ago, FSD once again failed to recognize another oncoming train, forcing him to slam the brakes.
In a video shared by another Tesla owner, the car stops before a flashing railroad crossing. As the barrier arms lower, a traffic light at an intersection ahead turns green. The Tesla suddenly accelerates towards the tracks, nearly getting caught under the arm until the driver slams the brakes. Seconds later, a double decker train blasts through.
“FSD tries to kill me,” reads a caption in the video.
Can’t see pedestrians.
Can’t see other cars.
Can’t see trees and poles.
Can’t see lines or bollards.
Can’t see trucks.
Can’t see trains.
I mean, at this point in the 2025 story line of Tesla failure after fatality from failure, where are all the stories about why exactly anyone still has been allowed to operate a Tesla in public? When it is so obviously defective, where’s the analysis of the loophole that allows it to continue? That would be some news.
China has been taking a leadership role in automotive safety by identifying and calling attention to defective vehicle door designs. It’s making waves especially because standing up to Tesla means the American car maker now faces real investigations and real consequences.
The situation parallels how cyclist Lance Armstrong, once celebrated in Austin, eventually had his Tour de France victories stripped due to doping violations. Similarly, Elon Musk’s Tesla, also now based in Austin, is finally seeing some accountability for its well-known safety issues.
Any timeline for the overdue potential consequences depends on how much longer regulatory bodies allow Tesla to operate despite what critics see as exploiting gaps in safety oversight—gaps that some argue should have resulted in stricter scrutiny from the very beginning of Tesla let alone from the rise in deaths after 2016.
Source: Twitter
Business Insider puts it mildly when they say parents are more and more outspoken about children dangerously trapped by known defective Tesla designs:
…the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched an investigation into the company.
The regulator cited multiple complaints from parents who said their children had become trapped in Tesla’s Model Y SUV after the electronic controls to open the doors from the outside became inoperable due to low power.
Bloomberg put it like this in their “Dangerous Doors” investigation of Tesla.
The potential safety issues with Tesla’s interior door release design aren’t just theoretical, either. Back in 2019, one lawsuit blamed the door handles for the death of a Model S owner who was unable to escape his burning Model S. More recently, a Bloomberg investigation found a slew of incidents where people inside a Tesla were injured or killed when they couldn’t open their doors after their cars lost power.
Meanwhile, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received at least 140 complaints about Tesla’s doors, and just this week, NHTSA opened an investigation into the Tesla Model Y’s door handles that will, thankfully, look into claims the exterior door handles occasionally fail…
This pattern of dangerous design defects extends internationally. In Germany, a country known for rigorous automotive engineering standards similar to China’s approach, their court recently addressed what it called a “deathtrap” of negligent homicide:
The expert’s verdict was damning: Tesla’s automatic door unlocking system failed in the crash. The result? The rear doors were incapable of being opened either from inside or out in the crucial moments after the crash. Laura and Noel, both aged 18, were alive yet tragically were trapped and burned to death as first responders could only watch in horror.
Again and again we read about Tesla crashing into the side or back of huge obvious trucks, leaving the innocent truck drivers dead. The hazmat itself somehow was not damaged or leaked in this attack, even though the Tesla impact killed the professional operator.
…Tesla rear-ended a box truck that was carrying hazardous materials. The force of the crash sent the box truck through a brick wall and caused it to overturn.
The collision killed the box truck driver and hospitalized two passengers. The Tesla driver was also hospitalized after the crash.
