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Former Uber self-driving chief: Tesla FSD crashed with my kids inside

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 21, 2026
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Raffi Krikorian ran Uber’s self-driving car division, trained safety drivers in intervention protocols, and went two years without a single injury. Then Tesla’s Full Self-Driving totaled his Model X with his kids in the back seat, Electrek reports. He published an essay in The Atlantic about it.

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