The Tesla ad Elon didn’t want you to see! Musk’s nemesis funds Super Bowl ad showing the car running over a child’s mannequin, ramming prams on the street and driving past a ‘Do Not Enter’ sign

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Billionaire tech entrepreneur Dan O’Dowd took yesterday’s Super Bowl as an opportunity to push his controversial campaign against rival Elon Musk‘s Tesla.

The ‘Dawn Project’ founder, who unsuccessfully ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent California last year, has spent millions trying to discredit Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology, which gives the cars partial autonomy.

During yesterday’s Super Bowl commercials, O’Dowd funded a 30-second clip claiming to show defects in Tesla‘s software as a narrator claims the car will ‘run down a child in a school crosswalk, swerve into oncoming traffic, hit a baby in a stroller, [and] go straight past stopped school buses.’

The Tesla ad Elon didn’t want you to see! Musk’s nemesis Dan O’Dowd funds Super Bowl ad showing self-driving car running over child’s mannequin, ramming prams on street and driving past a ‘Do Not Enter’ sign 

Musk nemesis Dan O’Dowd published an advert for the Super Bowl discrediting Tesla’s autopilot.

The ad, broadcast in Washington, DC, Austin, Tallahassee, Albany, Atlanta and Sacramento reportedly cost $598,000, A Dawn Project spokesperson told CNN.