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

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

Definitely wow 😮 @tesla 👏👏👏 https://t.co/ZTbkZq2wSu

— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) October 25, 2025

There’s nothing wrong with a mother praising her billionaire son—who among us wouldn’t?—but the post she’s embedding is hogwash. The team to be commended here is Matthew Topchian, a quick-thinking human motorist who takes evasive action using his hands and feet, which are made of flesh and blood.

A military prop plane on Thursday A shaky emergency landing followed the crash on a dusty back road on the outskirts of Oklahoma City.. There were two people on board, but no one was injured. However, the plane collided with two utility poles, sparking a fire. It also buzzed a Tesla that was avoiding disaster by focusing on its own business. (Incidentally, this type of plane used to destroy crops of coca leaves in South America).

Now Mei Musk is just one of countless Tesla fans of Elon Musk’s X, praising the company’s assist driver mode to avoid a potentially fatal collision between the vehicles.

The problem is, according to a post by the guy driving the car, he was driving the car the old way, and believes that if he hadn’t, it would have crashed.

D Problem x post It’s from someone named David Bello, and reads in part “Wow! Tesla’s fully self-driving plane dodges a freak plane falling from the sky!”

Last on TikTokWhere the near miss is originally from Matthew Topchian (who His identity was confirmed by his local news station) was asked if the car was in manual or self-driving mode, and Topchian’s answer was clear: “Manually, fsd is really good but it will absolutely mack that plane” Fast-type-on-a-smartphone-is translated from: I was driving myself. While Tesla’s assisted driving mode is nice, if I had used it at the time, I’m sure the plane would have been tragically wrecked.

The X post has since received a community note, correcting the record to not use the driver FSD, and Bello knows it, but he’s not deleting it, and He posted That he plans to do his own research, thank you very much. “I need to hear from Matthew that he wasn’t driving fully self-driving because that’s not the story I heard,” Bello wrote. Also, he said, “the note only mentions a comment on a TikTok and the only video from that TikTok account is this video. Could be a bot account or Matthew likes people thinking he’s a racecar driver and changed his initial story.“Definitely, yes, absolutely!

Bellow’s post is being taken as absolutely real. It has received millions of views, and the quote tweet text contains rather horribly misinformed statements choice “Tesla self-driving cars have reached a level of safety that I didn’t think was possible for another decade,” And “Autopilot dodges an airplane. That’s not self-driving — that’s situational awareness on the wheel…”