US authorities have opened an official investigation into 11 accidents involving the electric vehicle manufacturer’s driver assistance system.
Tesla is under investigation into 11 car accidents since 2018 involving its Autopilot driver assistance system in the United States. It’s the “A sign that the American authorities are starting to take a closer look at driver assistance technologies, after having largely left the field open to companies”, raise it Wall Street Journal.
The investigation of the NHTSA, the American road safety authority, which “The power to force recall of vehicles” and impose new rules for the entire industry, covers almost all Tesla vehicles sold in the United States since 2014, or approximately 765,000, underline the Financial Times.
Night accidents
The accidents in question resulted in the death of one person and injured 17. All involved emergency vehicles, notes the BBC. In some cases, the Tesla “Crashed directly into first aid vehicles”, found the NHTSA. The agency is particularly “Concerned about the apparent inability of Tesla to apprehend vehicles stopped on the road, in particular emergency vehicles dispatched to the scene of an incident”.
Most of the accidents took place “After dark”, raise it Guardian. The British daily explains that this investigation is the last of about thirty investigations launched by the NHTSA against Tesla, most “related to Autopilot ”. In June, the American agency had already “Required all car manufacturers to report any accident involving fully autonomous vehicles or partially automated driver assistance systems”.
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