The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Tesla on August 19 regarding alleged delays in mandatory reporting of crashes involving Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. The Office of Defects Investigation found numerous incident reports submitted under Standing General Order 2021-01 where crashes occurred months before the report dates, despite one- or five-day reporting requirements. Tesla's driver-assistance features have faced longstanding scrutiny and consumer confusion about autonomy. Autopilot and Full Self-Driving are classified as Level 2 systems that assist driver inputs but do not legally drive the vehicle. A rare Mercedes exception exists under narrow conditions.
"The Office of Defects Investigation ("ODI") has identified numerous incident reports submitted by Tesla, Inc. ("Tesla") in response to Standing General Order 2021-01 (the "SGO"), in which the reported crashes occurred several months or more before the dates of the reports. The majority of these reports involved crashes in which the Standing General Order in place at the time required a report to be submitted within one or five days of Tesla receiving notice of the crash," a federal filing reviewed by InsideEVs said.
I remember being yelled at by Tesla Public Relations way back in 2017-back when such a department was active-because already consumers believed that Tesla was selling autonomous cars. They are not, and no company sells a commercially available car that allows for eyes-off autonomy. (The exception is if you are driving one of a few Mercedes products, on a highway, in Nevada or California, below around 40 mph and the weather is good; that's so rare that it's functionally irrelevant at the moment).
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