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Federal regulators have begun an investigation Elon MuskTesla cars after high-profile incidents Full Self-Driving Function,
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced It was investigated on Tuesday after receiving dozens of reports. Tesla Cars running red lights and driving on the wrong side of the road are some examples of accidents involving injuries.
The investigation focuses solely on self-driving cars which still require a “fully attentive driver.” While drivers are solely responsible for complying with traffic laws, some claimed that the full self-driving technology did not warn them about its “intended behavior”.
There were 19 reports that claimed Tesla’s fully self-driving cars “failed to stop for the duration of a red traffic signal, failed to stop completely, or failed to accurately detect and display the correct traffic signal position in the vehicle interface,” regulators said.
Six related accidents were reported, four of which resulted in at least one injury.
There were also 22 reports that claimed Tesla’s full self-driving car, “entered the opposite lane of travel during or after a turn, crossed the double-yellow lane markings while proceeding straight, or attempted to turn onto the road in the wrong direction despite the presence of road signs.”
Several reports also claimed that these vehicles went into the turn-only lane at an intersection or turned into the through lane at an intersection.
The investigation will also look at the behavior of full self-driving technology when approaching railway crossings, which has recently been revealed. nbc news The investigation found that Tesla cars sometimes failed to stop at railway crossings.
Independent Tesla has been contacted for comment.
The NHTSA investigation involved 2,882,566 cars, essentially all Teslas equipped with full self-driving technology. The company is still testing a car that doesn’t require driver intervention, something Musk has been promising to do for years.
The new investigation follows several other investigations into the full self-driving feature on Teslas, which have been blamed for numerous injuries and deaths. Tesla has repeatedly said that the system cannot drive itself and that human drivers must be ready to intervene at all times.
Tesla is also being investigated by NHTSA for its “summon” technology, which allows drivers to ask their cars to go to their location to pick them up, a feature that has reportedly led to some fender benders in parking lots.
The investigation into driver-assistance features in 2.4 million Teslas was launched last year after several crashes in fog and other low-visibility conditions, including the death of a pedestrian.
Another investigation was launched by NHTSA in August to look into why Tesla was apparently not reporting accidents to the agency according to its rules.
Musk is under pressure to show that the latest advances in its driver-assistance features have not only fixed such glitches, but made them so good that drivers no longer even need to look out the window. He recently promised to install thousands of such self-driving Tesla cars tesla robotaxis On the streets by the end of next year.
Tesla isn’t the only self-driving car company in hot water. California officials recently pulled a waymo car There was no human driver inside after taking an illegal U-turn.
With reporting from the Associated Press.