More bad news for Tesla. The United States government is harassing them about their autopilot feature being linked to various car crashes and deaths.
RT:
Car maker Tesla’s Autopilot has been linked to hundreds of crashes and over a dozen deaths in the latest report by US auto-safety regulators, published on Thursday.
The US Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot, an advanced driver-assist feature that Elon Musk insists will eventually lead to fully autonomous cars, had identified at least 14 fatal crashes in which the feature was involved.
During its three-year investigation, which started in 2021, the agency has examined nearly 1,000 reported crashes that occurred between 2018 and August 2023. It found that the misuse of the Autopilot system had caused at least 14 accidents which led to fatalities and “many more involving serious injuries.”
NHTSA’s Office of Defective Investigations (ODI) found evidence that Tesla’s “weak driver engagement system was not appropriate for Autopilot’s permissive operating capabilities,” which resulted in a “critical safety gap.”
Of the 956 crashes examined, officials revealed Autopilot-related trends in about half of them.
I don’t know how true this is or not. I guess it could be true but who the hell really knows.
The government was harassing Elon Musk over a variety of things when he promised to bring free speech to Twitter. After failing to deliver free speech and regularly serving as a shill for Israel, the government backed off on harassing his business interests. This could just be a lingering effect of this.
Either way, this is another issue for Tesla on top of all the other problems they’ve been having. They just laid off thousands of their workers and sales of their homosexual electric cars is plunging. They’re also running into serious competition from the Chinese who are producing cheaper and better homosexual electric cars.
The future does look good for this company.
