How do you know this wasn't done?

Yup. It's completely false advertising and dangerous to call something Full Self-Driving or Autopilot when it clearly does not do what the common understanding of the names imply.

the driver of a Tesla who crashed into a house in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding the company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software.

Yes the naming convention is dumb but it wasn't at fault here.

I mean, I think the reasons that automated systems should allow for overrides by human operators should be pretty apparent.

It's a skill issue on the driver's part... or do you want the Tesla to come to a screeching halt on the highway every time the cameras white out from the sun?

For what it’s worth, I’ve always aimed to write my searches in as few words as possible to avoid bringing results from other unrelated topics into it. Most of my searches read like a caveman and often don’t show much relation to one another, but I get the results I’m looking for. More reinforcement of your point than anything that search history is almost impossible to determine the motivation behind.

I'm going to frame this comment and submit it to this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance

The guy literally had a google history asking how to make his Tesla go faster

Agreed, I don't think people who haven't experienced this can really understand it. I was accelerating into an intersection about to get hit by cross-traffic and when I saw what was inevitably going to happen my body just went rigid, and one of my feet was firmly on the accelerator. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) my car was a manual, and the other foot was firmly on the clutch, because I think I had just started or intended to change gears, so my car just drifted slowly into the intersection while roaring loudly at the rev limiter, and I only got clipped. But if my left foot had not been on the clutch, it probably would've been a much worse accident. There was no time for anything resembling a conscious thought. My entire body was instantly reacting, I suppose to brace itself for impact, it was very primal and instinctive. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.

That's true, and I remember that being a problem in a number of accidents for older drivers, but it sounds like this guy was just trying to drive quickly.

https://www.teslarati.com/ntsb-findings-on-fatal-tesla-crash-tell-a-very-different-story/

The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler...

Not elderly.

Butler told authorities he had passed out at the wheel. But security camera footage obtained by the NTSB told a different story, and showed the car accelerating through an intersection before leaving the road entirely. Police also found that Butler’s phone had Google searches including the terms “Tesla FSD not aggressive enough 2026” and “Tesla FSD too timid,” raising serious questions about how he was using the system before the crash. Butler has since been charged with manslaughter. The victim’s family has filed a lawsuit against both Butler and Tesla, alleging negligence.

Driver claims he was unconscious at the time, in case you're unfamiliar with the details so far.

Maybe a good compromise would be to only allow gentle acceleration in FSD. For full acceleration you need to tap the brake to disengage FSD to allow full acceleration.

In journalism, legalese is often necessary.

It is though. Yes there was a driver, yes they maybe the driver but in a court you have to prove they were the driver. Yeah it might be as easy as "they were in driver seat of the accident scene". But let's say evidence is only they were seen on a traffic camera 15 minute earlier, well they could of swapped seats or they could of been dropped off somewhere. You nor I don't know the answers to these questions and we shouldn't speculate, it should be proven in court.

Are you driving if your car is on autopilot?

Tesla, enough said