Enlarge / A Tesla with Full Self-Driving enabled, a moment before hitting a bollard in San Jose. (credit: AI Addict )
Ex-Tesla employee John Bernal says he was fired for posting YouTube videos about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta . He had been creating the videos with regard to about a year. Bernal says that Tesla also cut off his access to the FSD beta in the 2021 Tesla Model 3 that he owns.
The firing and beta cutoff occurred shortly after Bernal posted a video on February 4 of a minor accident in which his Tesla car hit a bollard that appears to separate a car lane from a bike lane in San Jose. In a subsequent video on February 7 providing frame-by-frame analysis of the collision , Bernal said that “no matter how minor this accident was, it’s the first FSD beta collision caught on camera that is irrefutable. ”
“I was fired from Tesla in Feb with my YouTube being cited as the reason why—even though my uploads are for my personal vehicle, off company time or property, with software I paid for, ” Bernal stated in the latest video , which was posted yesterday on his AI Addict channel. Bernal showed a notice he received that said his Full Self-Driving beta access has been disabled “based on your recent driving data. ” But that explanation didn’t seem to make sense because “the morning associated with being fired, I had zero improper use strikes on the vehicle, ” he said.
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