Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ mode lets cars speed, run stop signs, cause crashes: feds

Tesla is issuing a software update for hundreds of thousands of its electric vehicles in a bid to satisfy a federal safety recall.

After federal highway-safety authorities found that Tesla sedans equipped with the company’s oft-criticized “Full Self-Driving” software could cause the vehicles to act unsafely, the company agreed to issue a software update for vehicles with the $15,000 FSD add-on.

The FSD system being tested by Tesla owners on public roads across the U.S. in a beta program might cause crashes as it “may allow the vehicle to act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection

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