Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD, exposes supervision problem

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<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/09/Tesla-Self-Driving-FSD-Hero.png?w=1600" /></div><p>Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO and the former head of Uber’s self-driving car division, totaled his Tesla Model X while using “Full Self-Driving” on a residential street. His kids were in the back seat.</p> <p>In a new essay published in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/self-driving-car-technology-tesla-crash/686054/?gift=ObTAI8oDbHXe8UjwAQKul6acU0KJHCMEsvPjPPlG_MM" id="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/self-driving-car-technology-tesla-crash/686054/?gift=ObTAI8oDbHXe8UjwAQKul6acU0KJHCMEsvPjPPlG_MM" type="link">The Atlantic,</a> Krikorian breaks down the accident and offers what might be the most informed critique yet of the fundamental problem with Tesla’s approach to “supervised” autonomy — from someone who literally built self-driving systems for a living.</p> <a class="more-link" href="https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/former-uber-self-driving-chief-tesla-fsd-crash-supervision-problem/#more-460071">more…</a>