All the Risks Tesla Is Willing to Take to Deliver on Self-Driving

There's a whole genre of YouTube videos of people showing how their Teslas can drive themselves around. These users are testing out Tesla's Full Self-Driving capabilities--which sometimes work great, and other times … not so much. Most of these videos are made by true believers who want the company to succeed but are also honest when the tech fails and Tesla's promises fall short. These promises, after all, are big--and have long come directly from Elon Musk. But so are the risks: Last month, Tesla recalled around 360,000 cars with the company's Full Self-Driving beta system--which, in this case, meant the company had to push a software update to address behavior that increased the risk of a crash, like exceeding speed limits or traveling through intersections, according to a government regulator.