NHTSA requires automakers to report crashes involving advanced driver-assist features within one or five days of an incident. Tesla reported crashes several months or more after they occurred and attributed the delays to a data collection problem that the company says has been fixed. NHTSA opened an audit investigation as a standard procedure to verify compliance. A 2021 standing general order requires documentation of collisions when an automated driving system was in use within 30 seconds of impact. Tesla has reported over 2,300 crashes and accounted for 40 of 43 fatal crashes under the SGO. Autopilot and Full Self-Driving are Level 2 technologies that require full driver attention, while Waymo uses Level 4 automation. NHTSA earlier proposed revisions to the SGO to remove some reporting requirements.
Tesla is under investigation for failing to report crashes involving its partially autonomous driving technology in a timely manner. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires automakers to report crashes involving advanced driver assist features "within one or five days" of the incident, but Tesla was reporting crashes "several months or more" after they occurred, the agency said. Tesla has told NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation that the delays were the result of a problem with its data collection that has since been fixed.
The rule dates back to a standing general order (SGO) from 2021 that requires automakers and robotaxi companies to report crashes involving fully autonomous vehicles as well as Level 2 driver-assist systems. Under the SGO, companies are required to document collisions when an automated driving system was in use within 30 seconds of impact and report those incidents to the government. Since it was implemented, Tesla has reported over 2,300 crashes to the federal government, according to NHTSA. An analysis of the crash data shows Tesla accounted for 40 out of 43 fatal crashes reported under the SGO.
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