"With numerous accidents and countless close calls to its name, Tesla's Full Self-Driving software has a problem with more than occasionally going off the rails. As , numerous Tesla drivers have warned that their cars running the self-driving mode are going haywire near railroad crossings, failing to stop even when a train was barreling past right in front of them."
""If it's having trouble stopping at rail crossings, it's an accident waiting to happen," Phil Koopman, an associate professor emeritus of engineering at Carnegie Mellon, told . "It's just a matter of which driver gets caught at the wrong time." In all, interviewed six drivers who said their Full Self-Driving cars glitched out at railroad crossings. Another seven who posted videos of their incidents online declined to be interviewed."
"That paints an alarming trend too frequent to be written off as freak accidents or unfortunate flukes. It's happened enough for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to have approached Tesla about the issue, the agency told NBC. "We are aware of the incidents and have been in communication with the manufacturer," the NHTSA said in a statement, per NBC News. One Tesla owner Italo Frigoli showed that the software failure was easily replicable."
Tesla's Full Self-Driving software repeatedly fails to recognize trains and hazardous conditions at railroad crossings, causing cars to not stop or to accelerate toward tracks. Multiple drivers reported glitches, with six interviewed directly, seven posting videos but declining interviews, and roughly 40 complaints found on social platforms. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contacted Tesla about the pattern. One owner, Italo Frigoli, demonstrated a repeatable failure when the system again missed an oncoming train, forcing manual braking. In other videos a Tesla stops, then accelerates as crossing arms lower and a nearby traffic light turns green, nearly driving onto the tracks.
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