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‘A big deal’: Federal safety regulator takes aim at Tesla Autopilot
- ryzvonusef 5y agoIn June, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration ordered automakers to cough up data on every crash that involves automated driving systems, such as Tesla’s Autopilot. Last month it launched an investigation into a dozen crashes in which Teslas on Autopilot plowed into parked emergency vehicles. Then, on Tuesday, NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation sent an 11-page letter instructing Tesla to provide the agency with an enormous volume of detailed data on each Tesla vehicle sold or leased in the United States from 2014 to 2021. “This could be a very big deal,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina, one of the legal field’s foremost experts in automated motor vehicle law. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2021/INIM-PE21020-84913P.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2021/INIM-PE21020-84913P.pd...