---
title: "Tesla Drivers Say New Self-Driving Update Is Repeatedly Running Red Lights"
description: "Tesla drivers are saying the latest version of the car company's \"Full Self-Driving\" (FSD) software is making their cars run red lights."
date: "2024-08-23"
modified: "2024-08-23"
authors:
  - name: "Sharon Adarlo"
    job_title: "Correspondent"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sadarlo"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-fsd-update-red-lights"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "ai"
  - "elon musk"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Tesla Drivers Say New Self-Driving Update Is Repeatedly Running Red Lights

![Tesla drivers are saying the latest version of the car company's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) software is making their cars run red lights.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/tesla-fsd-update-red-lights.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty / Futurism\</em\>*

## Traffic Jam

Tesla drivers are saying the latest version of the car company's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) software is making their cars run red lights, alarming anybody concerned about these [so-called self-driving cars](<https://www.theverge.com/24065447/self-driving-car-autonomous-tesla-gm-baidu>).

"Thankfully I stopped it before it ran the light," wrote one Redditor user in a [thread with several other Tesla drivers experiencing the same thing](<https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1expeq8/12513_has_ran_4_red_lights_so_far/>), "but hopefully Tesla is aware their software is at a very dangerous level right now."

"I've also had that happen once or twice at below 30 mph," another person wrote. "Having trust issues because of it \[not gonna lie\]."

A YouTuber posted a [video clearly showing the red light problem](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZz2JqsWGE>) Redditors brought up in their thread.

"Don't do that! That's a red light," the YouTuber exclaimed while he was driving through the downtown area of Newark, New Jersey, and the vehicle tried to drive through a red light at an intersection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZz2JqsWGE

## Car Talk

The red light allegations don't bode well, with Tesla already [under federal investigation](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-autopilot-fsd-linked-crashes>) for its driver assist software's involvement in accidents, at least [13 of them fatal](<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/26/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash>).

In addition, the feds have [reprimanded Tesla](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/nhtsa-tesla-autopilot-crashes-continued-patch>) for not doing enough to address the issue, not to mention [serious accusations](<https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151881/tesla-justice-investigation-securities-wire-fraud-self-driving>) that Musk and Tesla executives misled the public by exaggerating the capabilities of its self-driving vehicles.

This is all happening as [Musk pivots Tesla towards robotaxis](<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/business/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi.html>), which have run into their own issues with [crashes](<https://www.fastcompany.com/91177678/cruise-recalls-autonomous-vehicle-fleet>), [glitches](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotaxis-gather-honk-all-night>), and [unpopularity with pedestrians](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/crowd-sets-robotaxi-fire>).

Will a software patch improve the red light issue? Perhaps.

But there's something that Musk can do that's low cost and won't hurt anybody: stop calling the Tesla auto assist software "Full Self-Driving" until it really is.

**More on Tesla:** *[If You Pay Attention to Tesla's FSD Map on the Dashboard, Crucial Problems Quickly Appear](<https://futurism.com/tesla-fsd-map-dashboard-problems-appear>)*