If Tesla doesn’t add driver monitoring safeguards, misuse of Autopilot is expected “and the risk for future crashes will remain,” the board wrote in one of its findings. Tuesday’s hearing focused on the March 2018 crash of a Tesla Model X SUV, in which Autopil...
Tesla's Autopilot software has been involved with more deaths and injuries than previously known: a total of 17 fatalities and 736 crashes since 2019, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) analyzed by the Washington Post. Officially, Telsa describes Autopi...
Huang had Autopilot engaged but Tesla believed he was playing a game on his phone Tesla’s legal team has performed an emergency braking maneuver to avoid a full-blown trial over a high-profile EV crash. The automaker reached a settlement with the family of the late Walter Huang only hours ...
The fatal accident, the first known case related to the autopilot feature, occurred 11 days before Musk and Tesla sold $2 billion shares in an offering on May 18. Yet the company made no mention of the crash in its offering documents. The news of the accident didn’t come out until ...
Tesla’s advanced driving assistance system, AutoPilot, is under multiple investigations over recent crashes. Moreover, the US recorded its first ever charging of an individual involved in a fatal crash while engaged with a driving assistance system. Across academia, industry, and the press, many ...
We provide an updated record of Tesla fatalities and Tesla accident deaths that have been reported and as much related crash data as possible (e.g. location of crash, names of deceased, etc.). This sheet also tallies each claimed and confirmed Tesla autopilot crash, i.e. every instance of...
Tesla’s Autopilot system may be the most advanced driving aid on the market but it still has a long way to go before being perfect. Case in point, this
The U.S. car maker did not explain whether the sedan's autopilot system had detected the traffic barrier before the fatal crash on March 23 on highway 101 in northern California. The deadly crash is the latest accident involving self-driving technology. ...
27 with his Model S’s Autopilot mode engaged. A Florida Highway Patrol investigation into the crash is ongoing. In a written statement, Tesla Motors said, “Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor-trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not...
Luo, however, blamed the crash on a fault in the autopilot system and said Tesla’s sales staff strongly promoted the system as ‘self-driving’. “The impression they give everyone is that this is self-driving, this isn’t assisted driving,” he said. ...