Dan O’Dowd discusses how Elon Musk has misled regulators into designating FSD as only a Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance System by rolling out a fleet of 400,000 fully autonomous vehicles, without any of the regulations and testing that should apply. Dan’s article was published in International Policy Digest, 7 June 2023, and can be…
The Dawn Project featured on The Daily Show
Dan O’Dowd discusses the critical safety defects present in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software and Elon Musk’s hypocritical stance on AI. Dan’s article was published in International Policy Digest, 16 April 2023, and can be read here. Elon Musk strongly endorsed a recent open letter that calls to “Pause Giant AI Experiments”. Meanwhile, Elon is…
Dan O’Dowd examines NHTSA’s recall of Tesla Full Self-Driving and calls on the California state government to act to keep the public safe from this dangerous and defective software. Dan’s article was published in CalMatters, 16 March 2023, and can be read here. California’s Office of Traffic Safety needs to do what the National…
The Dawn Project’s Super Bowl Commercial demonstrating critical safety defects in Tesla Full Self-Driving has been featured in The Washington Post. The Washington Post’s article was published on 11 February 2023, and can be found here. One of Tesla’s biggest critics is funding a Super Bowl ad against it Electric carmaker Tesla is facing…
Dan O’Dowd has been interviewed by The Times of London about The Dawn Project’s campaign to ban Tesla’s dangerous Full Self-Driving software. Read Dan’s interview below: Tech billionaire wages war on ‘safety’ of self-driving Teslas Elon Musk has made many enemies but perhaps few are as determined as Dan O’Dowd. While the world’s richest…
Dan O’Dowd has been interviewed by The Washington Post about his campaign to ban Tesla Full-Self Driving and make computers safe for humanity. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — When Dan O’Dowd had his midlife crisis, he bought two near-identical Tesla Roadsters, the first model the electric carmaker ever produced. This year, the 66 year-old tech entrepreneur…
The Mail Online has covered the news that The Dawn Project has been banned by Twitter from advertising its recent full page ad in the New York Times, citing that the ad was too “political” to be promoted on Elon Musk’s Twitter. The article was published in the Mail Online on 8 November 2022, and…
The Dawn Project’s Full-Page Advertisement in The New York Times has been covered in the Mail Online, highlighting the dangers Tesla Full Self-Driving poses to child pedestrians.
Dan O’Dowd, Founder of The Dawn Project, commented in International Policy Digest following the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) report into incidents involving vehicles utilising advanced driver-assisted technologies (ADAS), and more specifically in relation to the data regarding crashes involving Tesla’s Full Self-Driving and Autopilot systems.