A new video making the rounds shows Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software doing something pretty impressive—swerving hard to avoid a pedestrian dummy thrown directly in front of a moving vehicle at 45 mph.
The test was conducted by Tesla enthusiast ΛI DRIVR and tester David Moss, who shared the clip on Thursday. The video shows a Tesla cruising down a tree-lined street when a human-sized dummy gets tossed into its path from the side of the road. Running on FSD version 14.3.3, the car brakes hard and swerves sharply, avoiding the dummy entirely.
Tesla’s official account shared the footage shortly after, saying the software demonstrated “superhuman reaction time” during the encounter.
Check out the video below:
The video has sparked the usual debate online. FSD fans pointed to it as proof the technology can handle sudden, unpredictable hazards that would be tough for even an attentive human driver to react to in time. Critics, meanwhile, noted that FSD is still a supervised system, meaning the driver needs to stay engaged and ready to take over at any moment.
It’s also worth noting this comes as Tesla has been on a push to demonstrate FSD’s safety credentials globally, recently sharing data from early European rollouts showing vehicles on FSD Supervised were involved in significantly fewer collisions compared to manual driving.
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