Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd comments on NHTSA’s investigation into Tesla’s deployment of its Cybercab vehicles just one day after the driverless, steering-wheel-free robotaxis debuted on public roads. Dan’s comments were published on 04 September 2026, and can be read here. Dan O’Dowd commented: “Tesla has a long history of ignoring regulatory authorities,”…
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd was interviewed on the risks of commercial driverless vehicles, which rely on software that is easy to hack and was never built to safety-critical standards. Dan’s comments were published on 30 August 2026, and can be read here. Dan O’Dowd commented: “Connecting a safety-critical system such as a…
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd comments on the DOT’s proposal to no longer require brake pedals in exclusively autonomous vehicles in Business Insider. Dan’s comments were published on 26 June 2026, and can be read here. Dan O’Dowd commented: “Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ are nowhere near the reliability level required to remove the brake pedal,”…
Reuters covers The Dawn Project’s safety tests of Tesla FSD and Super Bowl commercials in its investigation into Tesla’s deceptive self-driving safety statistics. Reuters’ article was published on 28 May 2026, and can be read here. Why Tesla’s AI trainers don’t trust its self-driving tech – or its safety stats Tesla says its Full Self-Driving…
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd was interviewed by NBC about a Tesla owner’s lawsuit against the automaker over Elon Musk’s false promise of a self-driving car. Dan’s interview was published on 23 April 2026, and can be seen here. Dan O’Dowd commented: “It’s clear they don’t know how to do it, if they…
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd comments on Texas’s regulation of self-driving vehicles with a new state permit system in ABC Austin. Dan’s comments were published on 22 April 2026, and can be read here. Dan O’Dowd commented: “Texas is right to introduce more stringent regulatory requirements for AVs. Other states like California have…
All-in Tesla Cultists boast about their Tesla investments, but in reality the S&P 500 grew 84% in the last five years, while Tesla only grew 59%, underperforming the S&P 500 significantly. Tesla’s sales have declined for the last two years in a row, its market share plunging while BYD becomes the largest EV maker in…
For 12 consecutive years, Elon Musk has promised investors and consumers that Teslas would be capable of Full Self-Driving within a year. Watch Musk’s countless lies about the deployment of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving:
Elon Musk has for many years used misleading names for Tesla’s products to fan excitement and pump its stock price. In reality, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving and Autopilot softwares are nowhere near close to full autonomy, and the company does not have a Robotaxi.
Elon Musk has claimed that legacy media’s reporting about his companies are “lies,” but many reports regarding Tesla, SpaceX and more are alarmingly true. Watch how Musk lies about the media’s reporting on his companies:
In November 2017, Elon Musk unveiled the new Tesla Roadster, claiming that it would accelerate from zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds and the top speed would be over 250 miles per hour. At the end of the demonstration, he claimed the Roadster would be available in 2020. Musk and Tesla took millions of dollars…
Elon Musk called Tesla’ Optimus the “most sophisticated humanoid robot on earth,” but real-life demonstrations of Optimus show otherwise. The Dawn Project attended Tesla’s recent demonstration of Optimus serving popcorn and revealed that the event was completely staged, with Tesla employees admitting the humanoid robot was teleoperated. Elon Musk says that Optimus will make Tesla…
Elon Musk has said “the right metric for intelligence is the ability to predict the future, if your predictions are not that good, you’re not that smart.” Musk’s 2025 predictions, from 1,000 deployed Tesla Robotaxis to 10,000 Optimus robots assisting in Tesla factories. By his own reasoning, Elon is not that smart.
While Waymo has deployed thousands of robotaxis across America, Tesla has yet to deploy a single autonomous robotaxi. Waymo’s fleet continues to expand and operate autonomously in multiple American cities, while Tesla’s “Robotaxis” still operate with a supervisor in the front seat. Watch how Tesla’s dual city deployment compares to Waymo’s large-scale operation:
The Dawn Project’s recent testing of Tesla Full Self-Driving v14.1.4 found that the latest version still ignores railroad crossings and tries to drive across the tracks when there is a train approaching. During The Dawn Project’s testing, FSD attempted to drive through a railroad crossing with its red lights flashing, forcing our safety driver to…
After Elon Musk claimed that Tesla would “never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose,” Tesla has settled a litany of wrongful death cases involving its defective self-driving software. These settlements demonstrate Tesla admitting its software was at fault in these fatal collisions.
Tesla’s 2016 “Paint it Black” video showed a Tesla autonomously navigating a commute. This video turned out to be a blatant fraud, with Tesla hardcoding the autonomous drive of the vehicle in the demonstration. After nine years of development, Tesla’s newest version of Full Self-Driving, version 14, still requires human intervention to prevent the software…
Watch Elon Musk’s false promises about FSD’s safety improving with each passing version of the software Elon Musk and Tesla’s leadership have falsely claimed for years that each version of Tesla FSD would be better than the last. Through The Dawn Project’s testing, we have documented every version from version 12 to version 13.2.9 making…
The Dawn Project discusses its analysis of the Tesla Robotaxi launch, which showed that Tesla has already committed safety critical errors.
Public safety advocacy group The Dawn Project collaborated with Tesla Takedown to demonstrate the critical safety defects of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software in a live demonstration in Austin, Texas.
The Dawn Project’s latest safety tests reveal that Tesla Full Self-Driving continues to make safety critical errors.
Elon has spent years making and breaking promises about the Tesla Semi, just like his broken promises about Full Self-Driving.
Further to Tesla facing a class action on its EV range claims, The Dawn Project has tested whether Tesla overstates the range for its 2023 Model Y.
The Dawn Project has identified that Elon’s Department of Government Efficiency has failed to achieve its $2 trillion savings goal.
Elon Musk has made a litany of false promises about the Cybertruck since its 2019 unveil, leading to expectations which Tesla has failed to meet.
Dawn Project safety testing of Tesla’s FSD v13.2.8 shows that it will still commit egregious driving errors which endanger road users.
Despite Elon Musk’s 2019 claim that Teslas would not depreciate, the value of its models have been in freefall.
Despite Elon Musk claiming to be a “free speech absolutist”, he has been shown to use threats to intimidate the government and others who disparage him and his companies.
The Dawn Project’s testing has shown that Tesla’s Driver Monitoring System still fails to detect when the driver is not paying attention.
The Dawn Project’s recent testing of Tesla Full Self-Driving v13.2.7 has found that the latest version is still unable to drive without committing a litany of safety errors.
The Dawn Project has tested Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving version 13.2.2, and has found that it still commits a litany of safety critical defects while driving.
The Dawn Project’s testing of Tesla’s driver monitoring system has demonstrated that a human doesn’t even need to be in the driver’s seat to take over.
Tesla’s lead cultist Omar Qazi has claimed that Tesla Full Self-Driving v12 has solved autonomy, despite The Dawn Project’s testing proving this is not true.
For ten years, Elon Musk has promised the world that Tesla is on the verge of solving autonomy. Tesla still isn’t close. After years of failure, in 2023 Musk announced Full Self-Driving Version 12, which he promised to be the savior of Tesla’s woeful self-driving project.
Tesla has a rich history of staging and faking demonstration videos of its products. Its Full Self-Driving software, which Elon admitted is “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero” and the automaker is now relying on to realize its dreams of autonomy, is built on a lie.
The Dawn Project examines the conclusion of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s investigation into the safety risks posed by Tesla’s self-driving software.
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd examines the character and credibility of Warren Redlich following their recent debate about the danger of Tesla’s defective Full Self-Driving software on an X Spaces call.
Santa Barbara, CA – The Dawn Project is issuing a safety warning to all Tesla owners: you will soon be given a free month of Tesla’s defective Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. You will be told that the car can now “drive itself almost anywhere with minimal driver intervention”. That is a lie, do not turn…
Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) failed to pass a DMV driving test administered by a professional driving instructor, new tests conducted by The Dawn Project have revealed. This unequivocally disproves Elon Musk’s claim that Tesla Full Self-Driving is four times safer than a human driving by themselves. FSD is a much worse driver than a 16-year-old…
Dan O’Dowd analyses Tesla’s inadequate engineering testing of Full Self-Driving and explains why it cannot be considered beta software.
Why The Dawn Project is Now Calling for a Boycott of Tesla The Dawn Project has conclusively proven that Tesla’s self-driving software will: Run down a child crossing the road Blow past a stopped school bus Ignore ‘Do Not Enter’ and ‘Road Closed’ signs Hit a baby in a stroller 90% of people agree that…
Tesla’s statistics on Full Self-Driving’s mileage show that customers are only using the software 14.6% of the time. In Tesla’s latest Q4 2023 earnings call, Elon Musk said that 400,000 customers were using Full Self-Driving. This is the same number that Tesla reported a year ago in its Q4 2022 update. In the nine months…
Tesla supporters frequently point to Euro New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP)’s tests of Tesla vehicles to claim that Tesla vehicles are far safer than other manufacturers, and that Tesla’s active safety systems protect those around them. Elon Musk himself has relied on Euro NCAP’s testing videos, who gave the 2022 Tesla Model Y a five…
Omar Qazi is a pathological liar. He cares nothing for the truth. He only cares about pumping up the value of his Tesla stock. He makes up the most scurrilous lies from whole cloth and broadcasts them across the Internet to intimidate those who question Musk’s genius.
Santa Barbara, CA – Safety Advocacy Group The Dawn Project has today published footage of Tesla Full Self-Driving failing to handle the simple “drive to work” showcased by Tesla in a 2016 video which falsely claimed to show the capabilities of its self-driving software. In 2016 Tesla showcased a journey from a residential address in…
Nobody can replicate @WholeMarsBlog’s zero-intervention Tesla Full Self-Driving drives. So we decided to investigate. It turns out Omar Qazi, the pathological liar, is lying to the public again, publishing cherry-picked propaganda videos, when he knows FSD will try to kill you.
The Time Has Come To Disband Tesla’s Unethical Self-Driving Experiment – Dan O’Dowd | Founder of The Dawn Project
Anyone who doesn’t own Tesla stock can see that Full Self-Driving, with a human driver correcting its worst errors, is worse than a drunk driver. In fact, drivers have reported thousands of critical safety defects in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software. Despite this, Tesla fanboys continue to claim that Full Self-Driving, in conjunction with an alert…
Tesla Master Scam Part III: Will people see through him this time, or will they once again laud Master Scammer Musk for the awesome things he can’t do?
It’s been a year since The Dawn Project launched our campaign to Make Computers Safe for Humanity by launching a full-page advertisement in The New York Times, highlighting the dangers of Tesla Full Self-Driving. Let’s take a look back at how much has changed since our campaign started: The world now knows about The Dawn…
Elon Musk’s exhorting to investors to keep the faith in Tesla carries little weight while he continues to secretly dump his own shares into the market. Having sold almost $40bn worth of his personal holding since 2021, his public proclamations to shareholders can be summed up simply as ‘do as I say, not as I…
If you were designing a Full Self-Driving car, would you schedule recognizing and obeying ‘Do Not Enter’ signs before or after sending it out to 160,000 Beta customers? What about ‘Road Closed’ signs? What about stopped school buses with their stop signs extended and their lights flashing? What about strollers?
The Dawn Project | Is Tesla’s Full Self-Driving an Advanced Driver Assistance System or an Autonomous Vehicle?
The Dawn Project has conducted safety tests that reveal that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software product is not safe for public roads. This page contains key information and highlights of The Dawn Project’s findings to date, including revelations of critical safety problems in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software that pose a clear danger to public safety, together…
There have been thousands of critical safety defects reported by drivers using Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software. These range from the software running stop signs to swerving into cyclists. Please see below a compilation of these issues, as reported by hundreds of Tesla drivers. Watch Tesla FSD failing in hundreds of situations: Driving Dangerously in School…
The Dawn Project has today published a full-page advertisement in The New York Times highlighting the dangers of Tesla Full Self-Driving after safety tests revealed that it will repeatedly hit a child mannequin in a stroller. The Dawn Project’s advertisement was published in The New York Times today, and can be seen here. The ad…
The Dawn Project’s latest safety tests reveal that Tesla Full Self-Driving will hit a child mannequin in a stroller. The safety tests were conducted in a public parking lot by The Dawn Project in Santa Barbara, California in October 2022, using the latest version of Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta software available at the time of…
The Dawn Project Publishes Full Page Ad In The New York Times Highlighting The Dangers Tesla Full Self-Driving Poses To Child Pedestrians
The Dawn Project’s latest safety tests reveal that Tesla Full Self-Driving will drive around a stopped school bus with its stop sign arm extended and lights flashing and fail to obey school zone speed limits.
