Tesla Has Big Robotaxi Dreams. FSD Is Running Red Lights

"Its "Full Self-Driving" feature, which requires full supervision, is allegedly violating traffic laws. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into reports that FSD is piloting Teslas through red lights or drove into the opposing lane of traffic. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that, any day now, the company could have hundreds of thousands of autonomous taxis ferrying passengers all over the United States."

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened what it calls a "preliminary evaluation"one step along the road to a potential recallinto reports of FSD running red lights and trying to change lanes into the opposing lane of traffic. The agency "has identied a number of incidents in which the inputs to the dynamic driving task commanded by FSD induced vehicle behavior that violated trac safety laws," it said in an early October filing."

"FSD (Supervised) is Tesla's advanced driver-assistance system that, with the aid of cameras, pilots a car along any route selected by the driver. The $8,000 feature is supposed to react to pedestrians, traffic lights, local speed limits and the like while a driver supervises and intervenes if necessary. And a lot of the time, it does all of that impressively well. Over the years that FSD has been available to Tesla owners, though, its blind spots have been apparent too."

Tesla is pursuing mass adoption of autonomous taxis centered on its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. NHTSA opened a preliminary evaluation after receiving over 50 reports, including owner complaints, media accounts, and Tesla crash reports alleging FSD ran red lights and attempted lane changes into opposing traffic. NHTSA identified 19 instances of failing to stop at red signals and cited inputs that induced vehicle behavior violating traffic laws. FSD (Supervised) uses cameras to pilot routes with driver supervision and costs $8,000. The system generally performs well but has persistent blind spots that raise safety and regulatory concerns.

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