US authorities will investigate accidents involving Tesla - Walla! vehicle

2021-08-16T19:56:36.086Z

Safety authorities in the United States will investigate whether a failure in Tesla's "autopilot" system leads to poor identification and collision of emergency vehicles

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U.S. authorities will investigate accidents involving Tesla

Despite an exceptional safety record, US authorities are tired of accidents involving Tesla cars while using the autopilot system and will investigate dozens of accidents.

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Recklessness and lack of judgment on the part of drivers or a software glitch?

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In the incidents under investigation, cases are being investigated in which cars collided with emergency vehicles such as fire engines and rescue vehicles parked on the side of the road during the hours of darkness, even though they took all means of identification such as flashing lights, flares, cones and illuminated signs.

"The vehicles involved were in a condition where either their autopilot system or adaptive cruise control was active when they arrived near the scene of the accident," the NHTSA said.

According to the initial report, includes the investigation the cars Tesla models Y, X, S and Model 3 from model 2014 and 2021 and encompassing approximately -765 thousand units.

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It should be noted that in 2016 the first case was investigated in which a suspicion arose that a failure in the autopilot system led to an accident involving a Tesla car - in this case, Tesla was completely cleared on suspicion that a problem with the system led to the accident.

But even after that, authorities opened dozens of investigations into incidents in which they believe the autopilot system was active during accidents involving Tesla cars, with the NHTSA ordering Tesla to report accidents involving semi-autonomous or autonomous systems since last June. Tesla in beta) within 24 hours from the moment she found out about them.

Also regarding this move, NHTSA has had many criticisms that the company is in fact conducting an experiment on public roads in a system that has not yet been finally approved. "

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And yet, it is important to note that Tesla's cars are still considered the safest, according to a figure released by the company itself earlier this year, in the first quarter of 2021 only one accident was recorded for every 4.19 million miles of driving using an auto pilot.

When driving without the use of an auto pilot but still with the manufacturer's safety systems, an accident was recorded for every 2.05 million km. When driving without any assistance from systems, one accident was recorded for every 978,000 km in the company's cars.

For comparison, according to the NHTSA's average spring equivalent of the U.S. Road Safety Authority, the overall U.S. average is an accident per 484,000 miles.