An uptick in reports of Tesla crashing head-on into wrong-way drivers may indicate a serious vulnerability in its AI.

At least two tragic cases (Sept 10 and 18) are followed now by one a few days later. News reports say the huge wide open multi-lane bridge was mostly empty except for one car going the wrong-way. Somehow Tesla AI couldn’t figure out how to see and avoid this lone compact car driving towards it.

At 2:02 a.m., CHP received a call regarding a white Honda driving in the wrong direction westbound on Interstate 80 near Treasure Island. A few minutes later, the Honda crashed into a Tesla on the Alameda/San Francisco county line near east of Main Tower.

The tell here is 2am on the Bay Bridge just east of Main Tower — wide open empty lanes that are extremely well lit by the brand new bridge design. Notably the Tesla driver likely was asleep or otherwise wasn’t paying attention and is lucky to be alive, unlike recent head-on Tesla crash victims in Michigan and Alabama who were killed using on-ramps.

In other words, if all three cases prove to be Tesla AI mishandling the oncoming traffic, then the company is literally getting people killed just to discover (what we have reported clearly since at least 2016) that its software isn’t ready yet for public roads.