ROME (ITALPRESS) – The Tesla Cybertruck’s fully autonomous driving (FSD) system has proven to be a technology capable of saving human lives. Clifford, an American motorist, avoided a serious accident thanks to his Tesla’s ability to prevent a head-on collision on a narrow road in New Mexico with no street lights or reflectors.
“While driving through New Mexico after a Tesla shareholder meeting, a head-on collision at over 100 km/h was avoided. Just a damaged rearview mirror and window and a bit of shaking. Thank you Elon, thank you Tesla, thank you Cybertruck,” wrote Clifford in X.
In fact, as can be seen from the video published in Due to poor visibility, he did not see the vehicle on the collision course in time. There were only 2-3 seconds left to avoid a collision and on one side there were oncoming vehicles, including large trucks, and on the other side a guardrail.
The Tesla Cybertruck, equipped with FSD technology, so that it can be steered automatically, managed to avoid head-on collisions and collisions with oncoming traffic and guardrails at speeds of more than 100 km per hour. Even though the rearview mirror and window were damaged, Clifford was completely unharmed. FSD technology not only saved his life, but also prevented a serious accident that could have involved at least five other cars on the road at the time.
Clifford’s episode and its data confirm what Elon Musk has said, who has repeatedly stressed that the most important safety factor for any car is not how it saves the lives of its occupants in the event of a crash, but how it can prevent one.
According to the Tesla Vehicle Safety Report (https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport), published quarterly, Autopilot technology is approximately 9 times safer than the US average. For example, in the third quarter of 2025, the company recorded one accident for every 16,672,803 miles traveled by drivers using Autopilot technology. For comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA (from 2023) shows that a motor vehicle crash occurs approximately every 7,000,000 miles (1,127,000 kilometers) in the United States.
Tesla cars are actually equipped with cameras that monitor everything around them. The image is processed by a computer that gives commands to the car to drive according to highway codes and the surrounding environment. In this way, the FSD system significantly increases the chances of avoiding a collision and makes Tesla cars one of the safest in the world from an active safety point of view.
Every year, thousands of people die or are seriously injured in road accidents in the EU. In 2024 alone, around 19,940 people will lose their lives on the roads.
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