Musk falsely claims Tesla FSD is 10X safer than humans, complains about lawsuits

April 08, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Fred Lambert

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<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/02/Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Beta-smear-campaign.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600" /></div><p>Elon Musk claimed this week that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” is so much safer than human drivers that it could save 90% of the roughly one million lives lost in car crashes globally each year — a 10X improvement in safety.</p> <p>The problem is that Tesla has never released the data that would support anything close to that claim, and Musk is already using it to pre-frame the lawsuits Tesla is facing over FSD crashes as an unavoidable cost of progress.</p> <a class="more-link" href="https://electrek.co/2026/04/08/musk-tesla-fsd-10x-safer-claim-doesnt-hold-up/#more-462700">more…</a>

<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/02/Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Beta-smear-campaign.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600" /></div><p>Elon Musk claimed this week that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” is so much safer than human drivers that it could save 90% of the roughly one million lives lost in car crashes globally each year — a 10X improvement in safety.</p>

<p>The problem is that Tesla has never released the data that would support anything close to that claim, and Musk is already using it to pre-frame the lawsuits Tesla is facing over FSD crashes as an unavoidable cost of progress.</p>

<a class="more-link" href="https://electrek.co/2026/04/08/musk-tesla-fsd-10x-safer-claim-doesnt-hold-up/#more-462700">more…</a>

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