---
title: "Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers"
description: "## Crash Cam"
date: "2019-03-22"
modified: "2019-03-22"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/tesla-autopilot-shown-steering-towards-highway-barriers"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "artificial intelligence"
  - "Autonomous vehicles"
  - "tesla"
  - "transport"
---

# Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers

![New video footage shows that a dangerous problem with the Tesla Autopilot system that makes cars veer towards highway dividers is still happening.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tesla-autopilot-shown-steering-towards-highway-barriers.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Tesla\</em\>*

## Crash Cam

New dashcam footage shows a Tesla Model 3, with Autopilot switched on, veering towards a highway divider.

The video, recorded Tuesday and [shared to Reddit](<https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b36x27/its_back_after_6_months_of_working_fine_2019515/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x>) on Wednesday, shows the Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot mode correctly avoiding the divider several times before a final run where the car steers toward the metal barrier so severely that the driver needs to intervene.

\[embed\]https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b36x27/its\_back\_after\_6\_months\_of\_working\_fine\_2019515/\[/embed\]

## Repeated Incidents

Even worse, this problem isn't new.

Tesla drivers have been recording this particular Autopilot behavior for months — *Ars Technica* [provided a timeline](<https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/03/dashcam-video-shows-tesla-steering-toward-lane-divider-again/>) of concerned drivers whose Teslas had driven toward highway dividers as far back as last April.

In [one video from April](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJSjeHDvfY&feature=youtu.be&t=21>), a Tesla driver demonstrates his car's Autopilot steering him towards a highway divider where an autopilot-enabled Tesla Model X crashed just days prior, [killing its driver](<https://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-autopilot/3275600/>). Another video [shared to Reddit](<https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/9pkvy0/psa_v9_still_has_barrier_lust/>) in October corroborates those stories.

*Ars Technica* reached out to Tesla for comment, but did not hear back as of March 22, when it ran its story about the Autopilot errors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJSjeHDvfY&feature=youtu.be&t=21

## Bringing Up The Rear

According to research firm Navigant Research, Tesla's self-driving car technology [ranks 19th out of the 20](<https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-self-driving-race-navigant-results-2019/>) autonomous vehicle companies that it evaluated, only beating out Apple's [mostly-gutted autonomous vehicle division](<https://futurism.com/apple-facial-recognition-car>).

In the past, a number of car crashes have been chalked up to Tesla drivers [not understanding the limitations](<https://futurism.com/tesla-crash-confused-autonomous-autopilot>) of the optimistically-titled Autopilot mode. Given the prevalence of this dangerous bug, drivers would be wise to be more cautious than ever before letting their semi-autonomous vehicles take the wheel.

**READ MORE:** [Dashcam video shows Tesla steering toward lane divider—again](<https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/03/dashcam-video-shows-tesla-steering-toward-lane-divider-again/>) \[*Ars Technica*\]

**More on autopilot:** *[Tesla Just Dropped “Full Self-Driving” Mode From the Model 3](<https://futurism.com/tesla-dropped-full-self-driving-mode>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)