Dan O’Dowd is the rich tech CEO spending millions to stop Elon Musk

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Dan O’Dowd, founder of The Dawn Project, in Santa Barbara, has made it his mission to get Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta off the road. — Dan O’Dowd, founder of The Dawn Project, in Santa Barbara, has made it his mission to get Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta off the road. (Jonas Jungblut for The Washington Post)

Dan O’Dowd says Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving’ software shouldn’t be on the road. He’ll keep running over test dummies until someone listens.

November 13, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — When Dan O’Dowd had his midlife crisis, he bought two near-identical Tesla Roadsters, the first model the electric carmaker ever produced. This year, the 66 year-old tech entrepreneur added another to his collection: a Model 3 equipped with Full Self-Driving Beta — a software program that allows the car to drive on its own on highways and busy city streets.

The third Tesla is crucial for an unusual hobby: O’Dowd is waging a multimillion-dollar campaign to get Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software off the roads — before Tesla CEO Elon Musk follows through with plans to make the tech available worldwide by the end of the year.

O’Dowd, who made his fortune selling software to military customers, has been using the Model 3 to test and film the self-driving software. He’s documented what appear to be examples of the car swerving across the centerline toward oncoming traffic, failing to slow down in a school zone and missing stop signs. This summer, he triggered an uproar by releasing a video showing his Tesla — allegedly in Full Self-Driving mode — mowing…

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