Ever since Tesla started rolling out advanced driver-assistance features, it’s been plagued with problems. We’ve all seen clips of Tesla’s Autopilot wrong system of traffic signs, dangerous turn or fail brake for kids simulation. But now, a report from washington articles has discovered countless incidents on American roads in which this system has been involved, and the number is numerous.
Tesla first unveiled Autopilot in 2014 and in the years since it announced that it has become more advanced. Even so, the software is still not capable of self-driving cars and still classified as a level two driver assistance feature. This means drivers must keep their hands on the wheel and be ready to overtake at any time.
Now, it has been discovered that the system has been involved in a number of horrific crashes on American roads. In a report by Postthis caught our attention by people in Car hybridReporters found that the software has caused 736 crashes since 2019. Autopilot has also been implicated in 17 deaths on roads across the United States. Car hybrid report:
“The last time NHTSA released information about Autopilot-related deaths, in June 2022, they involved only three deaths from this technology. Less than a year later, the most recent numbers show 17 deaths, 11 of which have occurred since May 2022.
According to the website, a large increase in the number of deaths related to the rapid expansion of Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ software.” The automaker expanded the system from 12,000 vehicles to nearly 400,000 in a span of a year. Like Autopilot, the Full Self-Driver system introduced by Tesla couldn’t actually operate a single one. the car automatically, it’s also a second-level self-driving system, always requiring a human operator.
To find out how many crashes Tesla’s system was involved in, NHTSA collected data on crashes involving driver assistance technology. Of the 807 incidents it recorded since 2021, the watchdog found that “nearly all” were Tesla-related, while Subaru came in second with just 23 reported crashes. fox. Among the accidents involving a Tesla running Autopilot, Post found that 17 people died in the accidents. A motorcycle participated of those four accidents, while an ambulance was involved in one of them.
NHTSA data follows an announcement that it is calling on Tesla to share more details about its Autopilot system with regulators. In 2022, the agency upgraded its investigation into the system to a full-blown investigation, and in February of this year it recalls every vehicle equipped with Autopilot.
As it stands, NHTSA investigation into Tesla 2014–2022 The Model Y, Model X, Model S and Model 3 remain open and involve approximately 830,000 of the company’s vehicles.
