Don’t Listen to Tesla Fans on Social Media. FSD Did Not Just Prevent a Plane Crash

Look how proud Elon Musk’s mother is of her son’s car company:

Absolutely wow 😮 @Tesla 👏👏👏 https://t.co/ZTbkZq2wSu

– May Musk (@mayemusk) October 25, 2025

There’s nothing wrong with a mother praising her billionaire son – who wouldn’t do the same? -But the post you’re making is bullshit. The party who deserves credit here is Matthew Topchian, a quick-thinking human car driver who made a evasive effort using his hands and feet made of flesh and blood.

A military plane suffered a shaky emergency landing on Thursday, followed by a crash on a dirt back road on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. There were two people on board, but neither of them was injured. But a fire broke out when the plane hit two electricity poles. It also has Tesla wandering off minding its own business, narrowly avoiding disaster. (By the way, this type of aircraft is used to destroy coca leaf crops in South America.)

Now Maye Musk is just one of countless Tesla fans on Elon Musk’s

The problem is, according to what the guy driving the car posted, he was driving the car the old-fashioned way, and believes that if he hadn’t, it would have crashed.

The Issue

On TikTok, where the near-miss was originally posted by a man named Matthew Topchian (whose identity was confirmed by his local news station) the response was asked if the car was in manual or self-driving mode, and Topchian’s response was emphatic: “Manually, the fsd is really good but it can completely mess up that planeTranslation of hurriedly typing on a smartphone: I was driving the car manually. Although Tesla’s Assisted Driving mode is excellent, had I been using it at the time, I’m confident the plane would have been tragically destroyed.

Post ““I have to hear from Matthew himself that he wasn’t completely driving himself because that’s not the story I heard,” Bello wrote. He also says: “The note only mentions one TikTok comment and the only video on that TikTok account is this one.” It could be a bot or maybe Matthew liked the idea of ​​people thinking he was a race car driver so he changed his initial story.“Absolutely, yes, absolutely!

Bello’s post was taken as fact. It has racked up millions of views, and the quoted tweet text includes somewhat horrifyingly misleading phrases such as “Tesla’s self-driving car has reached a level of safety that I didn’t think would be possible for another decade.“The autopilot avoided the plane. This is not autonomous driving, this is situational awareness at the wheels…”