Dan O'Dowd (@RealDanODowd) / X

Dan O'Dowd

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Dan O'Dowd

@RealDanODowd

Green Hills Software CEO and Founder of The Dawn Project. I am running a campaign to make computers safe for humanity and ban Tesla Full Self-Driving.

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Joined May 2021

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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Jun 22
Happy 1st birthday to the Tesla Robotaxi! Tesla’s Robotaxi was meant to be covering 50% of the US population by now. It's only managed a handful of cars in just one state. Musk moved the goalposts relentlessly and still missed every shot. Why do people listen to this idiot?
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Jun 23, 2023
In my ride along with Ross Gerber, @Tesla Full Self-Driving ran a stop sign at 35mph. If Ross hadn't slammed on the brakes, FSD would have T-boned a car obeying the rules. FSD tried to kill us in an hour of city driving! Everyone should demand it be banned immediately. @NHTSAgov
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Dec 22, 2022
Why is $TSLA plunging? @ElonMusk: "Full Self-Driving...is the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money and being worth basically zero." Many competitors have driverless robotaxis but after 8 years of development FSD will still run down a child in a school crosswalk:
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Dan O'Dowd owns a competing company writing self driving software. ghs.com/products/auto_… Dan's previous attempt to show FSD will "run down a child" was debunked. electrek.co/2022/08/10/tes… Another user performed a test and it worked as expected. teslarati.com/teslas-fsd-bet… Tesla's FSD has over 55 million miles driven w/o any reported injuries.
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Jun 13, 2025
In 8 consecutive tests $TSLA Full Self-Driving 13.2.9 ran down child mannequins crossing the road while illegally blowing past a stopped school bus during our live FSD demo in Austin. We’ve warned Tesla for 2.5 years. They’ve done nothing. Why isn’t somebody in jail?
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Aug 3, 2023
We taught a bear how to drive a Tesla! 🐻🎈🦄 👻
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Feb 11, 2023
Watch The Dawn Project’s #SuperBowl ad demonstrate critical safety defects in @Tesla Full Self-Driving. 6 months ago we reported FSD would run down a child. Tesla hasn't even fixed that! To focus their attention, @NHTSAgov must turn off FSD until Tesla fixes all safety defects.
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Dan O'Dowd owns a competing company writing self driving software. ghs.com/products/auto_… Dan's previous attempt to show FSD will "run down a child" was debunked. electrek.co/2022/08/10/tes… Another user performed a test and it worked as expected. teslarati.com/teslas-fsd-bet… Tesla's FSD has over 55 million miles driven w/o any reported injuries.
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Nov 26, 2022
Our latest tests of @elonmusk's dangerous and defective @Tesla Full Self-Driving software reveal that it will repeatedly run down a child mannequin in a stroller: dawnproject.com/safety-tests-r…
Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Feb 13, 2024
Watch our two #SuperBowl LVIII commercials. @elonmusk says @Tesla is worth "basically zero" w/o self-driving, which is just vaporware & lies. This reckless experiment has claimed 33 lives. It doesn't work and keeps trying to kill people. #BoycottTesla to keep your family safe.
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Nov 20, 2022
Our latest tests of @ElonMusk's dangerous @Tesla Full Self-Driving software reveal that it will drive around a stopped school bus with its stop sign arm extended and lights flashing, and fails to obey variable school zone speed limits: bit.ly/3Xl6fjG
Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Jan 6, 2023
Why is @Tesla miles behind its self-driving competitors? Is it because their Technoking @ElonMusk is really a Techn00b? To find out read our latest blog here:
Does Tesla have the best engineers and engineering?
From dawnproject.com
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Aug 3, 2023
Tesla’s driver monitoring system is so bad that the “driver” can sleep, text, watch movies and read books. All they need to do is put on dark sunglasses. @Tesla, @NHTSAgov, how many of the 23 fatalities and 840 crashes would have been avoided if you'd just done your job?
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The video clearly shows a steering wheel weight, which is both illegal and can trick the system into thinking the driver is paying full attention. Dan O’Dowd broke the law in this failed experiment, which proves the safety of FSD beta, which executed the drive safely.
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Apr 11, 2024
New tests of @Tesla Full Self-Driving’s ability to react to pedestrians. This time the child-sized mannequin is stationary in the middle of the road. FSD v12.3.3 has nearly 10 seconds to see the child, which FSD registers as a person 5 seconds before it runs the child down.
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Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Nov 11, 2022
Our latest tests of @elonmusk's dangerous Full Self-Driving software reveal that it repeatedly fails to obey 'Road Closed' and 'Do Not Enter' signs. To see our tests and view the results, click here: dawnproject.com/new-dawn-proje…
Dan O'Dowd
@RealDanODowd
Oct 11, 2024
Robotaxi day was a total Snoozefest. After over 10 years of Full Self-Driving development, @Tesla is limited to a 20-30 acre geofenced 5mph ride on a preprogrammed, premapped and heavily rehearsed route with no traffic and no pedestrians. 1950s Disneyland guests would be
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