• A California Tesla owner has shared video of his car driving itself onto a live train line.
  • Footage shows the EV misjudging a turn in Santa Monica and entering a lane for LA’s Metro.
  • The owner, who paid $10,000 for the Full Self-Driving option, says he was badly shaken.

Road, good. Train track, bad. That’s something most car drivers are able to get their heads around. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system, on the other hand, is still getting to grips with the concept. A video picking up plenty of attention on social media shows a Tesla driving itself onto train lines, and it’s not the first time one of Elon’s cars has ended up on the wrong kind of track.

The incident took place in California where a Tesla owner was driving his EV through traffic in Santa Monica. Or, to be more precise, the owner was being driven by the car, which had its Full Self-Driving assistance tech engaged and its onboard cameras recording every move.

Related: Tesla Driver Reportedly On FSD Dodges Train By Taking Control At The Last Second

Pulling onto Colorado Avenue from an intersection, the Tesla turned too sharply and ended up driving down LA’s Metro E Line track which runs parallel to the road, the footage shows. The driver, Jesse Lyu, founder of AI company Rabbit, makes no attempt to correct the maneuver, which has you wondering if he was paying attention, even though Tesla expressly says FSD does not make its EVs autonomous.

To be fair, the train line we’re talking about here is a typical city type that looks just like a regular road lane, and because the rails are flush with the ground, it can be driven over by a car. But unfortunately for the owner, a fence on the left and concrete curb on the right makes it harder to get off the train track when he realizes his mistake – and spots a train bearing down on him from behind.

And he’s unable to move forward to safety at the next stoplight because there are buses and pedestrians crossing in front of him. As soon as the pedestrians are clear he runs the red light to get out of the way, but says he was left shaken by the experience.

“I’ve got nowhere to go, the train is right behind me,” Lyu says in commentary provided of the video he posted to X. “This is crazy, I could get killed because of this. I had to run the red light to save my life.”

H/t to SFGate