Tesla has pursued ambitious development of Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technology while regulators increase oversight. NHTSA opened a new investigation focused on the timing of incident reports for crashes involving those features. The Office of Defects Investigation found that reported crashes occurred several months or more before the dates of the reports, despite requirements to submit reports within one or five days of notice. NHTSA is evaluating the cause, scope, and mitigations for potential reporting delays. Tesla attributed the inconsistency to a data collection issue and said that issue has been fixed. NHTSA is approaching the matter cautiously and reviewing the automaker's explanation.
At a time when many automakers and tech companies are developing self-driving vehicles, regulatory agencies are doing their best to oversee those developments. Notably, Tesla has taken an ambitious approach to this tech, to the extent that there's an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to CEO Elon Musk's predictions about it. That's the idealized version of modern autonomy; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's various investigation into Tesla for crashes involving its so-called Full Self-Driving and Autopilot software represent something closer to reality.
NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation determined that "the reported crashes occurred several months or more before the dates of the reports," when Tesla was required to send the reports "within one or five days of Tesla receiving notice of the crash."As part of the organization's standard policy, they are currently "[evaluating] the cause of the potential delays in reporting, the scope of any such delays, and the mitigations that Tesla has developed to address them."
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