It still amazes me how anyone can be surprised to find out that without fraud, there would be no Tesla.

Lyu, the founder and CEO of artificial intelligence gadget startup Rabbit, was on the 15-minute drive from his apartment to his office in downtown Santa Monica. He’d turned on his car’s self-driving features, called Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (Supervised), after pulling out of his parking garage. The pay-to-add features are meant to drive the Tesla with “minimal driver intervention,” steering, stopping and accelerating on highways and even in city traffic, according to Tesla’s website. Lyu was cruising along, resting his arms on the steering wheel but letting the car direct itself, he said in a video interview Friday.

Then, Lyu’s day took a turn for the worse. At a stoplight, his Tesla turned left onto Colorado Avenue, but it missed the lane for cars. Instead, it plunged onto a street-grade light rail track between the road’s vehicle traffic lanes, paved but meant solely for trains on LA’s Metro E Line. He couldn’t just move over — a low concrete barrier separates the lanes, and a fence stands on the other side.

“It’s just f—king crazy,” he said, narrating a video he posted to X of the incident. “I’ve got nowhere to go. And, you can tell from behind … the train’s right here.” (He pointed to the oncoming train, stopped about a block behind his car.)

What’s f-king crazy is that any “CEO of artificial intelligence” would step into a Tesla. The Tesla fraudulent promise of using AI to become the safest car on the road has instead turned out to be a mass casualty and death machine. How is this huge elephant in the AI room still a surprise?