It seems there’s no end to unflattering headlines for Elon Musk’s car company, Tesla. Back in June, the Washington Post determined that Tesla’s Autopilot, the name the company gives to its artificial intelligence–operated driver assistance program, had been involved in 736 crashes since 2019 — more than four-hundred above what was previously known. Nearly two-thirds of the crashes happened over the past year, a rise that has coincided with the rollout of the company’s misleadingly named Full Self-Driving (FSD) software.

That report came four months after regulators forced the company to recall nearly 363,000 FSD-equipped cars and halt any new installations of the software, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) deeming it a “crash risk.” This is all as reports of Teslas driving into stationary objects or abruptly stopping on the highway have made headlines over the past year.

It all begs the question: If Tesla’s “self-driving” cars are this unsafe, why were they able to be bought and used en masse on the road before being beta tested?