In the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, and New Zealand, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode is already available, which means that if you find yourself in traffic behind this 3-ton “truck,” the chances that the driver is fast asleep are not zero. I say this because drivers have been caught on camera driving their Teslas in autopilot mode while fast asleep.

I don’t think I need to explain why that’s incredibly stupid and irresponsible, but I’m going to do it anyway. In this post, I’ll show you why autonomous vehicles are a massive scam that’s leading to increasingly fatal consequences, while the lack of regulations turns our streets into a testing ground for companies like Tesla and turns their drivers and the public into guinea pigs.

Do you remember when Schwarzenegger wakes up in a moving taxi and the driver is a robot? That’s the movie *Total Recall*, Total Recall takes place in the future, where there are robot taxis that take you wherever you want while you take a little nap, and that future is science fiction, because right now there are no autonomous vehicles—at least not outside of the small pilot programs that exist in highly controlled environments.

No matter how many times the world’s richest compulsive liar assures us otherwise, if there are no autonomous vehicles, then why are there people asleep behind the wheel of vehicles traveling at 100 km/h on the highways? Because those drivers are irresponsible and shouldn’t be allowed to drive even a tricycle, and because Elon Musk insists on convincing them that they can sleep during the trip and wake up at their destination.

But if you look at Tesla’s website where they offer Full Self-Driving, it also says, in parentheses, (Supervised). This means that once you activate autonomous mode, you still have to be ready to take the wheel if the Tesla starts making any strange or dangerous maneuvers—and those situations happen all the time. So, no, it’s not really autonomous because you have to keep an eye on it, and if a tragedy happens because you got distracted for two seconds while the self-driving system failed, criminal liability is shared between you and Tesla—and believe me, Tesla will do everything in its power to pin the blame on you.

This occurred during a horrific accident in Florida, where the driver of a Tesla—who had the autopilot system accidentally activated—dropped his phone. As he bent down to pick it up, the autopilot system failed to recognize traffic signals at an intersection, and the Tesla crashed into a young couple and their pickup truck, which was parked on the side of the road.

The young man survived with serious injuries and fractures, but the young woman died instantly. For four and a half years, Tesla claimed that the real-time data the vehicle sent to Tesla’s servers had been deleted, but it was later proven that they had lied. The data showed that 1.3 seconds before the crash, the autopilot system had shut down.

The court ordered Tesla to pay the young man and his girlfriend’s family $375 million. Tesla is far from offering a truly autonomous vehicle, but Elon Musk does everything he can to make his customers believe it is, putting everyone at risk.