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Comments mention driving too close to the car in front, or too fast, but I'd like to bring attention to distracted drivers. You can see how late the 4th-8th car apply the brakes, and quite reluctantly too. The first couple of cars behind the Tesla did crash but at a pretty low speed, I'd say not even at airbag-deploying speed. But the 6-7th end up hitting the pileup at a good 40-50mph.

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The paramount issue here is that the software isn't operating as intended. Reckless driving and distracted driving are compounding issues to that major concern. Rather than dismissing the accident as possible with a driver fully in control, distracted and reckless driving are great reasons why we shouldn't entrust auto-pilot software to public consumption yet.

Agreed that FSD is crap and shouldn't be available to the public. Maybe it's okay to be tested out in the public by professional drivers, paid to do that, and monitored for attention/alertness, much like Waymo did for oh-so-long (and Uber didn't before the infamous 2018 accident).

BUT... that Tesla could've been a student driver mistaking the brakes for the gas pedal, or a car running out of gas, or somebody passing out, or any number of other plausible circumstances where a car just stops in the left lane for no apparent reason.

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