Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd was profiled by The Telegraph as part of a feature on self-driving systems on British Roads.
Dan’s comments were published in The Sunday Telegraph on 28 December 2025 and can be read here.
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Dear Representative,
I am concerned by Tesla’s deployment of its experimental self-driving software on public roads. I note that data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that this technology has been implicated in over 1,000 crashes, dozens of which have been fatal. I urge you to act by calling for more stringent regulation of Tesla’s self-driving software. Tesla escapes the regulatory scrutiny we rightly place on other self-driving cars. I call on you to address this issue by demanding that Tesla is held to the same standards we demand of other self-driving vehicles.
Sincerely,