A Tesla FSD V13 owner reached out to Elon Musk following a frightening situation where they had to ‘run a red light’ to avoid danger.

Many are pondering the impact of artificial intelligence (AI): will it help us or harm us?

In this particular scenario, it seems the latter was more likely, as a Tesla owner expressed their concern on Twitter, addressing founder and CEO Elon Musk after a distressing experience with their self-driving car.

Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of AI startup Rabbit Inc, shared a video on Twitter on January 2, showing footage from their FSD v.13.2.2 Tesla vehicle.

In the clip, Lyu can be heard saying: “Yeah so the autopilot is engaged waiting for the left turn.

“[…] You’re going to see something crazy. So here we go, it turns green and it’s making a turn, but it f**king turns into the train line right?

“[…] I got nowhere to go and you can tell from behind […] the train’s right here. It’s f**king right here. I’ve got nowhere to do. And it’s a red light.”

Lyu quickly ‘disengaged autopilot’ and ‘had to run a red light to get out of’ the train line because he ‘didn’t know where to go’.

“I’m just waiting for all these pedestrians to get out and I did that,” he added. “I got nowhere to go, the train’s right behind me, this is crazy.”

The tech CEO concluded: “I could’ve [been] killed because of this. I mean I’m very happy with the autopilot, but this one time, that’s scared the s**t out of me. That’s crazy. It’s insane. I was literally shaking. […] I had to run the red light to save my life.”

Social media users quickly chimed in. Warning: Explicit language.

Some questioned why Lyu didn’t take action sooner before the vehicle reached the tracks.

However, another countered: “A lot of people seem to be reporting this, and yes the person should have intervened but at the same time, we need a fix for this asap. We do not want to see this with unsupervised self driving which WILL be rolled out this year.”

Lyu later tweeted a follow-up: “To all people saying that why i didn’t take over, i did. from my experience it’s really hard to predict how the FSD would turn the wheel during turns. (and during FSD turns you don’t keep your hand on the wheel) the previous FSD handles this turn correctly and i saw the wheel starts to turn so i disengaged immediately when i saw the radius is wrong.”

He explained the situation was ‘particularly tricky’ as he was unable to back up or make lane changes due to a fence on his left and a curb on the right within ‘single lane traffic’.

Lyu concluded: “My immediate reaction is to check if there’s a train approaching behind me and there is. so my only option is to drive forward and exit at the very next exit. not knowing for sure how this particular train will react, i figured i should move out of it regardless. i just hope tesla fix it and make improvements.”