US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recently repeat to reporters that Tesla Its advanced driver assistance system should not be called Autopilot because it does not automatically steer the vehicle. If only someone could do something about that.
That’s what Germans and other Europeans do recognized for year (in Germany Autopilot is called Autodrive for this reason). Buttigieg talked to Related press and reiterate that there are no self-driving cars that exist on the market today, including Teslas, that use Level 2 driver — the worst for human attention span:
“I don’t think it’s a good idea to call something, like Autopilot, when the print clearly says you need to keep your hands on the wheel and keep your eyes on the road,” Buttigieg said in an interview with The Times. Associated Press
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Buttigieg said the Department of Transportation would hold Tesla or any other company responsible for compliance with federal safety standards. “We call the ball and attack,” he said. “I see it as something very important to be very objective. But whenever a company does something wrong or a vehicle needs to be recalled or an unsafe design, we are there.”
Holding Tesla accountable has been on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s to-do list since 2015, when Teslas started exploding in popularity largely due to Autopilot. While NHTSA was busy for four years, its already dull canines were further blunted by Trump Administration, it still investigates more than 30 incidents involving Autopilot or Tesla’s seemingly more advanced software, the Full Self Driving Beta. NHTSA believes it can connect at least 14 deaths to the software. Autopilot and FSD are suspected of hitting everything from pedestrians to parked emergency vehicles.
Teslas have been stuck at Level 2 autonomy since the software was launched in 2014, even though CEO Elon Musk has promised fully self-driving cars to the world. the past ten years. He also promised it later this year, but considering that Musk is facing legal and regulatory challenges over software from NHTSAthe National Traffic Safety Boardthe Department of Justicethe California Department of Motor Vehicles and lawsuits from people from shareholder arrive the families of those killed in or by one of his carsall on Autopilot, I won’t hold my breath.
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In the meantime, companies that did not have Tesla’s head start is ADAS, like Mercedes and Audi, which have achieved a very limited form of Level 3 self-driving that allows drivers to let go of the wheel, with plans to sell these cars in Nevada later this year.
