Tesla’s software slammed by Ralph Nader as dangerous, irresponsible

US politician Ralph Nader has issued a statement calling Tesla’s full self-driving technology “one of the most dangerous and irresponsible actions by a car company in decades.”

Nader called on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to use its safety recall authority to order that FSD technology be removed in every Tesla; amounting to about 100,000 vehicles according to CEO Elon Musk.

The author of the bestselling book “Unsafe at Any Speed,” which criticized the American auto industry, cited research that found FSD malfunctions every eight minutes.

The said research was published in January by The Dawn Project, an organization aiming to ban unsafe software from safety critical systems that put out a full-page ad in The New York Times slating Tesla’s FSD, which analyzed data from 21 YouTube videos of Tesla owners using FSD beta software.

“This nation should not allow this malfunctioning software which Tesla itself warns may do the ‘wrong thing at the worst time’ on the same streets where children walk to school,” wrote Nader.