As part of an investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot safety issues, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asked 12 other major automakers to provide data on their driver assistance systems on Monday.
The agency plans to conduct a comparative analysis of the systems provided by Tesla and its competitors, and their respective practices for developing, testing and tracking the safety of driver assistance packages. If NHTSA determines that any vehicle (or component or system) has a design defect or a safety defect, the agency has the right to make a mandatory recall.
According to public records, NHTSA’s defect investigation office has now investigated BMW, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Stellattis, Subaru, Toyota and Volkswagen as its Tesla automatic Part of the pilot survey.
Some of these brands are Tesla’s main competitors and have popular models in the growing battery electric field of the automotive market, especially Kia and Volkswagen in Europe.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has always touted Autopilot as a technology that makes his company’s electric cars much less likely to have accidents than other companies’ electric cars.
In April of this year, he wrote on Twitter: “Autopilot-enabled Tesla is now 10 times less likely to have an accident than a normal vehicle.”
Now, the FBI compares Tesla’s entire methodology and Autopilot design with the practices and driver assistance systems of other automakers.
The results of this investigation may not only lead to a software recall of Tesla Autopilot, but also a broader regulatory crackdown on automakers, as well as the need for them to develop and track autonomous driving features (such as traffic-aware cruise control or collision avoidance) How to use it.
As previously reported by CNBC, NHTSA initially began investigating Tesla’s autopilot after a series of collisions between Tesla vehicles and emergency vehicles resulted in 17 injuries and 1 death. It recently added another collision to the list, involving a Tesla deviating from the road in Orlando and almost hitting a police officer who was assisting another driver on the side of the road.
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