With numerous accidents and countless close calls to its name, Tesla's Full Self-Driving software has a problem with more than occasionally going off the rails.
Or sometimes, going onto them.
As NBC News reports, numerous Tesla drivers have warned that their cars running the self-driving mode are going haywire near railroad crossings, failing to stop even when a train was barreling past right in front of them. Most of them were able to manually intervene and slam the brakes in time, but that hasn't always been the case.
"If it's having trouble stopping at rail crossings, it's an accident waiting to happen," Phil Koopman, an associate professor emeritus of engineering at Carnegie Mellon, told NBC. "It's just a matter of which driver gets caught at the wrong time."
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