Hi everyone, I'm Maggie McGrath, senior editor at Forbes.

Elon Musk is promoting Tesla's full self-driving software, and his $1 trillion pay package

depends on people buying the service.

Yet in an exclusive new test, Forbes has uncovered that this FSD technology ignored

standard street signs, including a flashing bus sign. Joining us now is my colleague's senior

editor, Alan Owensman, who was the editor who tested this self-driving software. Alan, thanks

much for being here. Hi, Maggie. Good

to be with you. So you bravely got, I say bravely, because I have not driven in any autonomous

vehicle or rather ridden as a passenger, but you got inside a self-driving Tesla for a test. How did it go?

Well, to call it self-driving, that's the problem.

Self-driving implies full autonomy that the vehicle can do all driving functions on its own.

That was not the case here. This was a test that was provided with the Dawn Project,

which is a program that's trying to raise awareness

about some of the shortcomings of Tesla's technology. This occurred this month where we began

about a 90-minute assessment in suburban Los Angeles, basically, and in and around some

LA neighborhoods. You plug in your address where

you want to go into the system, and the vehicle will just take off. So it does feel like an

autonomous vehicle at first. Tesla now brands the system, full self-driving, parentheses,

supervised. That's a very recent change. So since 2020, when they began offering this,

they just called it full self-driving. They've run into some problems because of that name.

The state of California, the DMV there, is trying to force them to stop using both FSD and

autopilot as commercial product names because they're deceptive.

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