Jason Oppenheim, the broker behind Netflix’s Selling Sunset, has swapped his Bentley for a Tesla Model Y and announced on camera that each of his 10 employees is getting a Tesla with Full Self-Driving (Supervised). He posted the three-minute clip to X on Saturday evening, October 3, under the caption “A public service announcement.” By Monday it had 2.65 million views, Tesla had reposted it from its main account, and Elon Musk had replied.

The video is shot from the driver’s seat as the Model Y backs out of a Newport Beach parking lot, destination set to his office on Sunset Boulevard. Oppenheim says the car will cover the hour-and-15-minute drive and park itself behind the office without him touching the wheel or the pedals. The Bentley went to his father. His brother bought a Tesla during a phone call the night before, and his aging aunt gets one whether she buys it or he does.

He also gives three numbers to back the safety case. FSD is eight times safer than the average driver, 25 times safer than a distracted driver, and 40,000 Americans die in car crashes every year. The first number is on Tesla’s own safety page. The second is not, and the third is about 3,400 too high.

Oppenheim’s Eight-Times Figure Is Tesla’s, the 25-Times Figure Is Not

Tesla’s FSD Supervised safety report, updated February 18, 2026, puts one major collision every 5,300,676 miles with FSD engaged against a U.S. average of one every 660,164 miles, eight times as far. The report carries no distracted-driver figure at all.

Oppenheim did not say where the 25 came from, and his own description of himself does more work than the number. He says he is “a distracted driver quite often” because he texts and takes calls behind the wheel. That is the use case Musk endorsed in December, when he said FSD v14.2.1 lets drivers text, as EVXL reported in Elon Musk Says Tesla FSD Allows Texting While Driving Despite 49-State Ban. California is one of the 49 states where it is illegal, and FSD Supervised remains a Level 2 system that Tesla says requires active driver supervision.

The 40,000 figure is dated. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated 36,640 U.S. traffic deaths for 2025 in its April 3 release, down 6.7% from 2024 and the second-lowest fatality rate on record at 1.10 per 100 million miles. Tesla’s eight-times number also carries baggage Oppenheim’s audience will not hear in the clip. Tesla counts crashes that set off airbags and measures them against a federal rate that includes far milder collisions, a comparison 10 of 11 traffic-safety researchers told Reuters amounts to misleading marketing. Two senators asked NHTSA in June to examine that method. EVXL covered that letter in Tesla FSD Safety Math Draws Senate Demand for NHTSA Review. NHTSA separately upgraded its own FSD investigation to an engineering analysis this year, covering nine crashes in which the system may have failed to warn drivers in time about reduced road visibility, according to the agency’s July 2 information request to Tesla.

The Lawyer Lobby He Blames Spent 2026 Fighting Uber, Not FSD

Oppenheim says California’s biggest attorneys’ lobbying group is working to slow full self-driving because 60% of personal injury cases are car accidents. He named no group or bill, and EVXL found none. The state’s trial-lawyer lobby, the Consumer Attorneys of California, spent 2026 fighting Uber over crash payouts.

That fight ended on June 25, when Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 623, a compromise that pulled two competing ballot measures, one from Uber capping attorney fees on crash recoveries and one from the lawyers expanding Uber’s liability for sexual misconduct, after each side had raised or set aside more than $75 million, per CalMatters. The closest match to his description sits in Washington, not Sacramento: the national trial-lawyer group, the American Association for Justice, has opposed federal autonomous-vehicle bills since at least a February 2020 House hearing, on the grounds that victims must keep the right to sue the manufacturer. Oppenheim knows this world from the inside: he practiced law in Los Angeles before relaunching the Oppenheim Group in 2013.

The state body that has moved against the software is the one he did not mention. A state administrative judge ruled on December 16, 2025, on a complaint brought by the California DMV, that “Full Self-Driving” was false advertising, and Tesla sued to overturn the finding in February, a case EVXL followed in Tesla Sues California DMV Over FSD Branding. A Los Angeles broker telling 2.65 million viewers the car drives itself is the marketing problem that ruling was about.

Tesla Reposted the Video Within Two Hours and Musk Called FSD Magic

Tesla’s main X account shared the clip two hours after it went up, quoting “I’m buying 10 of my employees a Tesla with FSD. It’s 8x safer than the average driver.” Musk had replied within half an hour: “Tesla FSD feels like magic,” according to Teslarati.

By Monday the post had 2,340 reposts and 19,500 likes on X.

His car and the ten for staff each come with a $99-a-month subscription, the only way to get FSD since Tesla ended the $8,000 purchase option on February 14. Active subscriptions reached 1.48 million in the second quarter, up 56% in a year, a figure EVXL pulled apart in its Q2 earnings coverage. Ten million active subscriptions is one of the milestones in Musk’s 2025 pay package.

Not everyone on the show is on board. Chrishell Stause, Oppenheim’s co-star and former partner, mocked the post on Threads and accused him of fanboying over Musk, Yahoo Entertainment reported on Monday.

EVXL’s Take

I like that a man who admits to texting behind the wheel is handing that job to software, and on the Tesla owner’s manual’s terms, with eyes up, FSD Supervised is a better driver than a distracted human. The eight-times number is real in the sense that Tesla published it, and it is the number the senators want NHTSA to pull apart. Oppenheim repeated it as settled fact.

My read is that the 25-times figure and the lawyer conspiracy will travel further than the correction ever will, because Tesla reposted them. A company fighting the California DMV over the words “Full Self-Driving” just amplified a video that says the car drives you to work while you check email. The ten employees are getting a good car and a $99 subscription that keeps the driver on the hook for every crash, and the first one of them who reads the owner’s manual will notice that the public service announcement left that part out.

Sources: Jason Oppenheim on X, Tesla FSD Supervised Safety Report, NHTSA, CalMatters, Teslarati, Yahoo Entertainment

EVXL uses automated tools to support research and source retrieval. All reporting and editorial perspectives are by Haye Kesteloo.