‘Worked flawlessly aside from this’: Tesla self-driving mode swerves into oncoming traffic, Musk fans say no big deal

Would you put your life in Elon Musk‘s hands? Tesla wants you to, despite near-constant videos on social media showing Musk’s cars doing their absolute best to kill their owners. A particularly dramatic example was posted yesterday and shows a Tesla (the exact model is unclear) driving in full self-driving (FSD) mode in what appear to be ideal conditions.

It’s a straight two-lane highway, there are no distractions, no pedestrians, and no junctions. But, for some reason, the FSD decides to suddenly veer into the incoming lane, right into the path of a truck towing a trailer. It’s only the driver’s quick reflexes that save them (and the passengers in the oncoming vehicle) from what would probably be a deadly head-on collision:

@Tesla_AI @Tesla FSD v13.2.9 tried swerving into oncoming traffic. Visualization showed white dashed lane markings instead of yellow! PLEASE FIX

Worked flawlessly for ~12 hours of driving aside from this pic.twitter.com/0MZDb5TNFc

— Pedro Contipelli (@PC42661428) July 2, 2025

But, as is now traditional for Tesla fans, the fact that their car just tried to kill them is no biggie. The driver says that it “worked flawlessly” right up until the point he nearly died. Y’know, the OceanGate submersible “worked flawlessly” right up until its catastrophic and fatal implosion, but we’re not listing that among mankind’s great engineering achievements.

Other Tesla fans (with, inevitably, blueticks) also don’t see the car randomly swerving into traffic as anything to be concerned about, saying “even humans do this” (yeah, and they die!), that it’s fine because the driver caught it in time, and it the FSD was simply trying to overtake and merely peeked into the oncoming lane.

You’re taking your life into your hands

This comes amidst many other incidents of Tesla vehicles doing similar things, some with truly tragic ends. So, if you’re driving a Tesla and are tempted to use its self-driving mode, please monitor what the car is doing at all times and do not tamper with any of the safety systems. Or just take the wheel and use your human brain and senses, which are superior to any FSD.

Heck, why not remember the many, many insane things Elon Musk has said and done over the last few months and ask yourself whether you would trust that bloated ketamine-addled mess with your life. Heck, his rockets regularly explode into smithereens, his AI is randomly ranting about “white genocide,” and his Cybertrucks are falling apart because they used the “wrong glue”. Frankly, at this point, I wouldn’t even trust him to design a Matchbox car.