Coast to Coast in a Tesla Model Y 'Autonomous' and They Suffer This Crash at 100 Kilometers (Video)

Tesla is a brand that has never needed to spend a dollar on marketing and advertising. The popularity of its cars, the innovative technologies they brought to the market a few years ago, and the curiosity they have always sparked have made influencers and digital media do all the work in that regard.

Both for better and for worse, but in the current situation, Tesla is perhaps getting used to receiving more bad news than good. Especially regarding its autonomous driving technology, beyond its drop in global sales.

Tesla has always boasted, through its names, that its Autopilot and FSD technologies were fully autonomous driving, when they have never gone beyond being advanced level 2 systems. Remember that the systems that allow the driver to disengage are level 4 or 5. This issue has caused more than one legal headache for Elon Musk's brand.

Another Video That Calls Into Question FSD Technology

And beyond these problems, there are many videos on the Internet that show the weaknesses of Tesla's autonomous driving technology. The latest featured a Model Y, with the latest update of the FSD system, and two influencers who are also shareholders of the company.

Their challenge was to replicate the promise (one of many) of Elon Musk. The CEO of Tesla said back in 2016 that they hoped, by the end of 2017, to be able to demonstrate fully autonomous driving from Los Angeles to New York without the driver having to touch anything, even while charging.

Needless to say, that did not happen, so these two influencers set themselves the challenge of traveling coast to coast, at least in terms of driving. They aimed to travel from San Diego, California, to Jacksonville, Florida. A journey, in practice, of 33 hours and about 3,800 kilometers by car.

This was the impact of the Tesla Model Y against some debris on the road, in video.

However, the trip lasted very little, very little. As their idea was to film the entire journey (without editing) and demonstrate that they could cross the entire country without touching the steering wheel, they were caught out at the first hurdle.

Before they even left the state of California, before 100 kilometers, the Tesla Model Y was not aware of the presence of some debris in its lane. The occupants of the car saw it in advance, as you can see in the video, but did not react in time and the electric SUV ended up bouncing after the crash.

Fortunately for the occupants, nothing happened to them, but it was clear that the impact was avoidable if the driver had taken control of the vehicle. In the car, it was not the same: the stabilizer bar support broke and other suspension components were damaged.

Result: barely 2.5 percent of the journey covered. Another example that Tesla's FSD system has a long way to go. It is true that their 'Robotaxi' tests in Austin in recent months are promising, but in the meantime, Waymo, as well as other companies, have already accumulated millions of kilometers in these circumstances over the past few years.

Fuente: @BeardedTeslaGuy