The key is "with human supervision". Calling it Full Self Driving with "Supervised" in parentheses aftwards while putting out videos where they say the only reason there's some behind the wheel is because of regulations (those annoying "regulations" amirite?) leads people to think they don't really need to supervise the driving of the car.

Couple that with the fact that there are actual full self driving cars (Waymo) there's even greater confusion.

People have been killed because of the misconceptions about Telsa cars actually being full self driving. Which they aren't, they cheap out on the hardware needed for that to be possible, let alone the software.

Source Tesla 2025 Q2 report

uhhhhhhh

I can’t think of a less trustworthy source. Rolling a pile of dice with words on them is likely to tell the truth more often.

You know what, you're right.

You know what has an even better safety track record than a car with FSD supervised by a human?

Trains.

If your concern is actually safety, advocate for the safest methods of transportation - mass public transit, coupled with pedestrian- and bicycle-safe roads, and advocate against passenger cars, in any form.

It's not safer. I know because I've driven one. Not only does it make it easier to get distracted for just a moment, but also, you pay less attention to the surroundings, handling of the vehicle, situational awareness, etc. Because you know you don't "have to".

And when it makes mistakes (and it does quite often) you're less prepared to deal with it.

Now you're going to parrot "but you're supposed to be attentive at all times", and yes, you're right, but we're humans. And yes, you can absolutely extrapolate that FSD is less safe because of it, because it definitely puts the final safely measure on a weak part: us.

Adaptive cruise control plus some level of Lane assist is, in my experience, safer. You're still driving but you can relax your muscles, therefore allowing you to be less tired. More so if you have a manual transmission.

I don't have stats, but my personal feeling is that car safety features trump full self driving.

Eg, you are actively driving (which ensures you are engaged and dont fall asleep, etc), but if the car sees something it can react (drifting out of lane, car slows down ahead of you, person walks in road, etc).

That seems so much safer in my opinion.

(That works for driving around town, ofc I think adaptive cruise control + the above safety features is safe for highways, etc)

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