Tesla Autopilot Crash Probe To Have A Resolution Soon (image: x.com/tesla)
The two-year investigation of the Tesla autopilot vehicles accidents by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is to bring in a pronouncement soon, says the NHTSA’s acting head Ann Carlson, reported the Reuters.
“It”s really important that drivers pay attention. It”s also really important that driver monitoring systems take into account that humans over-trust technology,” she said, while speaking on advanced driver assistance systems to an interview given to the Reuters.
Tesla autopilot cars, which features the driver assistance system, has had more than a dozen accidents, hitting parked or stationary emergency vehicles. The autopilot feature is to enable the car to break, accelerate and steer automatically within their lane while the feature, advanced autopilot is for changing the lanes.
There was no comment on when and how of the Tesla cars probe resolution but only that “hopefully you”ll hear something relatively soon.” Tesla has not commented on this.
The case was opened in 2021 and in 2022, the probe added 830,000 Tesla vehicles, to an analysis of the engineering of the vehicles. Since 2016, a separate probe is on, where the feature, autopilot has been used while the vehicles crashed in 23 cases, the number of cases go up beyond three dozen.
Carlson told Reuters that as the number of cases are high, the investigation is complicated. Investigation is also upon whether, Tesla has ensured if drivers are giving enough attention while on the road.
The effectiveness of Tesla’s driver alerting feature is another matter. In 2022, the agency said the 9 out of 11 vehicles did not show driver engagement nor any sort of driver alert, but only at the last minute of collusion and that four vehicles did not show any sort of visual or chime alerts in the final stages.
In 2017, the agency had closed a probe, without any action, it has been criticised by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), for its failure to ensure autopilot safety. Tesla has also been criticised NTSB in this matter, that Tesla”s lacks the system safeguards for Autopilot.
Further, NTSB said, that NHTSA should see that the automobile makers do “incorporate system safeguards that limit the use of automated vehicle control systems to those conditions for which they were designed,” reported the Reuters.
Tesla cars are known for its high torque, meaning high speeds and autopilot driving technologies.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is a US federal government agency, part of transportation department, which looks into transportation safety in the country and the National Transportation Safety Board of USA (NTSB) is an independent federal agency which investigates accidents and determines the probable causes and safety measures.
