The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed on July 15, 2026, that the driver of a Tesla involved in a fatal Texas crash had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding the vehicle's Full Self-Driving system rather than being controlled by it.
The driver had attributed the crash, which occurred in June 2026, to Tesla's Autopilot system. The NTSB findings directly contradict that account, according to TechCrunch and Ars Technica.
Ars Technica reported that the findings also support a claim made by Elon Musk that the driver had manually overridden Full Self-Driving. TechCrunch noted that the NTSB's conclusions aligned with Tesla's own account of the crash, which the company shared in the days immediately following the incident.
The driver's full-throttle input, the NTSB determined, was what overrode the automated system at the time of the fatal collision.