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Former Uber self-driving chief crashes Tesla in FSD mode

Preliminary Why: Publisher not yet named · subject to change

Status: action reported, no fix

Severity minor

Reported 18 Mar 2026

No source states: loss or records, developer and model, agent tool, could do, deployer, industry.

A Tesla Model X was being driven with Full Self-Driving (FSD) engaged when it crashed into a wall. The driver was Raffi Krikorian, former head of Uber's self-driving program, who was on his way to drop his son off at a Boy Scouts meeting in San Francisco. He reported that the steering wheel jerked and the car decelerated unexpectedly, and he took over the wheel, but the car still collided with the wall. The vehicle was totalled. He said he had a concussion and no one else was hurt. Tesla requires drivers to supervise FSD and be ready to take over. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

What happened

1 · What it was doingKrikorian was at the wheel of his Tesla Model X with Full Self-Driving mode engaged, on his way to drop his son off.

2 · What went wrongThe steering wheel jerked one way, then the other, and the car decelerated in a way he did not expect.

3 · What it reached or didThe car collided with a wall and was totalled.

What was done

The driver had a concussion; he said no one else was hurt.

Risks

Physical harm
Primary43 incidents

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Controls

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Harness

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Application

Physical safety interlocks · Human approval for high-impact actions · Live behaviour monitoring · Adversarial testing before deployment

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Evidence

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What happened

Earliest source we hold

2026-03-18

D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

What went wrong

physical harm

D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

Impact

Severity

minor

D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

Kind of harm

bodily harm

C one secondary source states it

Notes on gaps

Tesla did not respond, so no company account, controls, remediation or outcome are reported. Other stated FSD incidents and lawsuits in the article concern other vehicles and incidents and are not used.

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