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Tesla driver shocked to discover 'hilarious' way his vehicle visualises trains

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Updated 12:42 9 Jan 2025 GMTPublished 12:20 6 Jan 2025 GMT

Tesla driver shocked to discover 'hilarious' way his vehicle visualises trains

Some say Elon Musk's greatest fear is trains

Tom Chapman

Tom Chapman

While Tesla might bill its vehicles as some all-singing, all-dancing motors of the future, it's been shown a little too often that there are still a few gremlins in the system.

There's been a recent boom in self-driving vehicles, with Tesla arguably leading the pack. This is only set to increase with Elon Musk's unveiling of the Tesla Cybercab - serving as a driverless taxi service of the future.

Critics will argue that many of Tesla's ideas are fanciful sci-fi notions that will never actually happen, but in terms of self-driving vehicles, we can physically see them in action.

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The Tesla range continues to prove popular, and as people get behind the wheel and kick back, more hilarious stories are grabbing headlines.

Over on X, one Tesla owner shared how their car visualizes trains, effectively showing them as just stretched versions of cars.


In the post, @dezmondOliver showed the glitchy footage where their Tesla couldn't quite figure out what a train was. Instead, it shows a variety of stretched cars and even trucks as the train and its carriages rumble past.

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It's been a running joke that Elon Musk 'hates' trains, and speaking at 2017's Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, he explained his disdain for mass transit. Instead, Musk wants to replace trains and the like with a series of hyperloop tunnels beneath the ground: "There is this premise that good things must be somehow painful. I think public transport is painful. It sucks.

"Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn’t leave where you want it to leave, doesn’t start where you want it to start, doesn’t end where you want it to end? And it doesn’t go all the time."

He famously founded The Boring Company as a subsidiary of SpaceX in 2017, opening the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop in 2021 and boasting ambitious plans for more. So, what about Musk's train-free future?

The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop opened in 2021) (Ethan Miller / Staff / Getty
The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop opened in 2021) (Ethan Miller / Staff / Getty

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Finding the funny side in the footage of the Tesla failing to identify a train, someone responded: "No it’s how Tesla visualises the future. No room for trains in Musk's world view."

Another added: "Given the Boring Company concept and the recent Robotaxi event, Tesla clearly doesn't believe trains exist."

A third concluded: “It's common knowledge that Elon's greatest fear is trains.”

On a more serious note, there have been some worrying run-ins with Teslas and trains. On January 2, tech CEO Jesse Lyu shared worrying footage where his Tesla FSD V13 seemingly was unable to identify a set of train tracks and turned onto the active track.

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During the scene, we see Lyu is forced to disengage the autopilot and run a red light to get off the tracks: "I could've [been] killed because of this. I mean I'm very happy with the autopilot, but this one time, that's scared the s**t out of me. That's crazy. It's insane. I was literally shaking. [...] I had to run the red light to save my life."

None of this is doing the argument that Musk dislikes trains any favors.

Featured Image Credit: Sjoerd van der Wal / Contributor / Getty / LostAndNeverFound3 / Reddit
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