Tesla has come underneath hearth once more for its controversially named Full Self-Driving driver-assist function, this time in an advert that aired on Sunday in Washington, D.C., in addition to in various state capitals throughout Tremendous Bowl LVII.

The spot reveals various conditions the place a Tesla allegedly working in FSD mode fails, with examples together with vehicles crossing into oncoming lanes and operating over mannequins simulating youngsters crossing the street.

The advert was produced by The Daybreak Challenge, a corporation which goals to make sure the security of software program in vital conditions. The advert was additionally posted on Saturday by tech entrepreneur Dan O’Dowd on his Twitter account, along with a request for the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration to ban FSD from public roads. The company thus far has solely opened a probe following a sequence of crashes involving Teslas and emergency automobiles.

O’Dowd, who based The Daybreak Challenge, is a software program engineer that develops software program he claims by no means fails and cannot be hacked. A number of the software program he has developed has been utilized by the army, in addition to NASA. He additionally based and runs an organization known as Inexperienced Hills Software program, which is working with corporations within the automotive business to make sure the secure deployment of self-driving know-how.

Nonetheless, regardless of what the identify alludes to, FSD does not allow a automobile to drive by itself. The function, which is an improve of the extra primary Autopilot driver-assist function, can deal with sure conditions however requires a driver to observe issues always and to at all times be able to right errors.

The advert calling for the banning of FSD comes simply weeks after the U.S. Justice Division requested paperwork from Tesla associated to Autopilot and FSD. The top of the Nationwide Transportation Security Board additionally in 2021 known as the FSD identify “deceptive and irresponsible,” and California has deemed it unlawful.

Tesla has promised that FSD will finally be capable of function a car with out anybody having to be onboard, however whereas the corporate continues to replace the capabilities of FSD, some disgruntled Tesla clients filed a category motion lawsuit towards the automaker final 12 months over the failure to ship a completely functioning system. Tesla’s legal professionals later reportedly argued that failure to ship self-driving vehicles is not fraud, and known as for the swimsuit to be dismissed.