But note well that his own company specializes in software reliability, and that this gives him an interest in publicizing the topic. In part he is offended by what he regards as the use of unreliable software in mission-critical applications. He even toyed with a one-issue campaign for the U.S. Dowd published the findings, running an ad in The New York Times and a commercial during the Super Bowl. In 2021 he launched the Dawn Project, a nonprofit, to investigate, and it found a lot of bugs in the software. He only took notice when he learned that the software had been implicated in accidents.
He’d heard of the company’s self-driving system, originally known as AutoPilot, in its early years, but he never used it. He bought his wife a Tesla Model S in 2012, and she still drives nothing else. He notes that he bought a Tesla Roadster in 2010, when it was still the only EV around, and that he has driven no other car to this day. O’Dowd says he likes Tesla cars, just not their software. And, if you listen to O’Dowd, you do not want FSD in your car at all. In other words, you do not want to fall asleep while FSD is driving. Often the car stopped hard, harder than a human driver would have done. At one point they passed a fire engine, which the car’s software mistook for a mere truck: a bug, though no one was endangered. In a video the team published online, they covered roads, multilane highways, a crossing zone with pedestrians. In the tests, Gerber took the wheel, O’Dowd rode shotgun, and they drove around Santa Barbara, Calif.-or were driven, if you will, with Gerber’s assistance.
If it’s ‘won’t,’ that’s criminal if it’s ‘can’t,’ that’s not much better.” -Dan O’Dowd, the Dawn Project “We’ve reported dozens of bugs, and either they can’t or won’t fix them. He likened it instead to a student driver, and the human being behind the wheel to a driving instructor. The FSD scrutiny O’Dowd is bringing to bear on the EV maker is only the latest in a string of recent knocks-including a Tesla shareholder lawsuit about overblown FSD promises, insider allegations of fakery in FSD promotional events, and a recent company data leak that includes thousands of FSD customer complaints.Īt yesterday’s livestreamed event, O’Dowd said FSD doesn’t do what its name implies, and that what it does do, it does badly enough to endanger lives. The real challenge came after their talk, when the two men got into a Tesla Model S and tested its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software-a purportedly autonomous or near-autonomous driving technology that represents the high end of its suite of driver-assistance features the company calls Autopilot and Advanced Autopilot. Yesterday, in a livestreamed event, Dan O’Dowd-a software billionaire and vehement critic of Tesla Motors’ allegedly self-driving technologies-debated Ross Gerber, an investment banker who backs the company.
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