A man says his Tesla saved his life by swerving in self-driving mode to avoid an oncoming car at 75mph.

Clifford Lee was driving in full self-drive mode (FSD) on a freeway in New Mexico at around 6:30pm on November 9.

It was “pitch black” and the driving conditions were “horrendous”.

Due to the poor visibility, Clifford had failed to see that a truck had gone into his lane to pass a semi, and it was coming straight at him.

He realized too late that the driver was not going to complete the maneuver in time, and was about to cause a high-speed head-on collision.

But the self-driving mode kicked in and swerved his Cybertruck onto the shoulder.

He believes he wouldn’t have been able to react in time if he had been driving without the use of Tesla’s self driving mode.

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