Tesla reintroduces ‘Mad Max’ Full Self-Driving mode that breaks velocity limits

Tesla has added one other openly silly new entry to its dubious safety record. The most recent replace to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving System provides a mode referred to as Mad Max, “which comes with greater speeds and extra frequent lane modifications” than the system’s Hurry mode. This function is not new; it was a part of the Autopilot mode in 2018 that pre-dated FSD. Based on Electrek, the re-introduction of Mad Max mode goes precisely in addition to you’d count on: “It hasn’t been out for twenty-four hours, and it has already been noticed rolling cease indicators and driving greater than 15 mph (24 km/h) over the velocity restrict.”

Every part about this can be a comically dangerous concept, or it will be comedian if it wasn’t so downright harmful. The US Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration simply opened an investigation into the corporate’s FSD system final week after receiving greater than 50 stories of site visitors security violations along with quite a few crashes. And that is simply the most recent time the regulator has put FSD in its crosshairs. Selecting this second to reintroduce an automatic driving mode primarily based on a post-apocalyptic wasteland the place life is meaningless is a stage of conceitedness that does really feel on model for Tesla.