Analyst had to intervene to keep Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode from crashing

A financial analyst who heeded Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s suggestion that investors need to experiment with the company’s so-called Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature to understand the company and said that he narrowly avoided a crash while testing the system.

William Stein, an analyst with Truist Securities, explained in a note to investors that he took a Tesla Model Y for a test drive this month in suburban New York and needed to intervene on several occasions, including to avoid an accident when a car in front of him stopped a t