The National Traffic Safety Administration of the US Highway. UU (NHTSA) has initiated an investigation of the Tesla autopilot system. The probe follows 11 accidents with vehicles parked for the first time since 2018, which resulted in 17 injuries and a death.
“Most incidents took place after the darkness and shock scenes found included scene control measures, such as the first lights of the vehicle, flares, an illuminated arrow board and road cones,” he wrote the office of defect research of the NHTSA (ODI) in a document that details the investigation. “It was confirmed that the vehicles of the subjects involved were confirmed that they had been involved in the control of automatic cruises or traffic, during the crash approach.”
The Preliminary Evaluation of ODI focuses on the autopilot in the models and, X, S and 3 of the 2014 Models to 2021. that covers around 765,000 Tesla electric vehicles, as Bloomberg says. The incidents in question were carried out between January 2018 and July of this year, even in Massachusetts, Michigan and Arizona. The ODI also cited three accidents in California.
The automatic pilot system keeps the vehicle centered on the lane and maintains the speed when it is active in its operating design domain (ODD). However, it is not yet a complete self-control system. The drivers still have the main responsibility of the object and the detection and response of the event (OEDR), identifying and responding to obstacles, vehicles and “adverse maneuvers” by other drivers.
“The research will also evaluate the OEDR by vehicles when it was involved in autopilot mode, and strange in which the automatic pilot mode is functional. The research will also include the examination of the contributory circumstances for confirmed faults” mentioned in the document, as well as similar crashes. , Odi wrote.
The NHTSA investigated and eliminated Tesla on the first death related to the autopilot in 2016. Since then, the agency has opened dozens of other probes in incidents in which you believe that Autopilot was involved. In June, the NHTSA ordered car manufacturers to inform incidents involving semi-food and totally autonomous driving systems within 24 hours of learning about them.
Earlier this year, the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) urged NHTSA to emit stricter regulations for autonomous driving, citing Tesla in his letter. “Tesla recently launched a beta version of her level 2 automatic pilot system, described as a total automatic driving capacity,” wrote the NTSB Robert Sumwalt chair. “By freeing the system, Tesla is testing a highly automated AV technology on public roads, but with the limited requirements of supervision or notification”.
