The Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration has opened an investigation into greater than 2.8 million Tesla autos with the corporate’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. As reported earlier by Reuters, the investigation will probe the site visitors violations that happen with FSD, together with driving by way of crimson lights and touring the wrong way down the street.
NHTSA’s Workplace of Defects Investigation is wanting into 58 site visitors security incidents involving FSD, together with 14 crashes and 23 accidents. In some instances, a Tesla car did not cease, or didn’t stay stopped, at a crimson mild with FSD engaged, whereas others contain Teslas with FSD getting into the alternative lane of site visitors throughout or following a flip, or making an attempt to “flip onto a highway within the incorrect course regardless of the presence of wrongway highway indicators.”
For this most up-to-date investigation, NHTSA will give attention to crimson mild and wrong-way violations, however it can additionally evaluate incidents that happen at railroad crossings. NBC highlighted this issue in a report final month, revealing quite a few incidents by which FSD-enabled Teslas did not cease at railroad crossings with a prepare approaching.
The information of the investigation comes at an ungainly time for Tesla, which is within the midst of attempting to persuade native regulators to authorize its robotaxi service. The corporate is at the moment working a ridehailing service with security displays within the car in San Francisco and Austin — although Elon Musk has stated he desires to increase to “50 percent” of the US by the tip of the yr.