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Steven Loveday

Tesla Owner Tests Whether His Model Y With FSD Beta Will Hit Him

If you haven't been following, Dan O'Dowd – who runs a software company that rivals Tesla – has launched an expensive ad campaign aiming to prove that Tesla's EVs will kill children. The campaign has encouraged Tesla owners to create videos showing how Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Beta technology react to objects and people in the real world.

After billionaire and US Senate candidate O'Dowd launched his campaign and got a video on the air that suggests Tesla's FSD Beta technology is a danger, several Tesla FSD Beta testers pushed back. In fact, one tester teamed up with some friends to prove that the software doesn't react as O'Dowd's video suggests. However, since the video used real children for the tests, someone requested that YouTube take it down, and it did.

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