Dan O’Dowd comments on the dangers of Tesla FSD’s “Mad Max” mode in Rolling Stone

Dan O’Dowd explains the dangers of Tesla’s new “Mad Max” profile for Full Self-Driving following a number of videos showing FSD speeding.

Dan’s comments were published in Rolling Stone on 24 October, 2025, and can be found here. 

Dan O’Dowd commented: “Rather than improving road safety, Tesla’s latest software update is putting more people at risk. Driving in Mad Max mode doesn’t just put Tesla owners at risk but also other road users, who did not sign up to be Elon Musk’s crash test dummies.

“I have never seen another Fortune 500 CEO show such callous disregard for public safety or the law.

“NHTSA must act now to ban Tesla Full Self-Driving in the interests of public safety. Tesla has wasted critical engineering time developing this juvenile and reckless software mode instead of using that time to fix the litany of critical safety defects that remain present in its defective Full Self-Driving software.”