Tesla’s Self-Driving Heroics Aren’t Special—They’re Normal

The dashcam video begins with Joshua Brown’s Telsa Model S cruising down the highway. Tessy—that’s the car’s name, duh—is in Autopilot mode as Brown, hands resting on the wheel, listens to his Malcolm Gladwell audiobook. Suddenly, a boom lift truck glides across three lanes, headed straight for Tessy.

“I actually wasn’t watching that direction,” Brown writes in the video’s description. “I became aware of the danger when Tessy alerted me with the ‘immediately take over’ warning chime and the car swerving to the right to avoid the side collision.”