According to a report from the New York Times, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is going to expand its investigation of the autopilot system of the electric car maker.
The nation's top auto-safety agency moved forward with plans to upgrade its Preliminary Evaluation into an Engineering Analysis, which is the next step in a possible recall of hundreds of thousands ofTesla vehicles. When interacting with first responders at the scene of a collision, the NHTSA plans to take a deeper look into how autopilot-equipped cars navigate.
The NHTSA has investigated the company before. There were reports of crashes that left 17 people injured and one person dead when NHTSA opened the original probe into the advanced driver- assist systems ofTesla. The number of crashes has gone up since then.
According to a document from the NHTSA Office of Defects, the motivation to upgrade the investigation status was due to the number of crashes in which the cars were operating with autopilot engaged.
According to the NYT, the NHTSA became aware of 191 crashes that were operating under the autopilot feature. According to the NHTSA, the autopilot system is designed to support and assist the driver.
The software is designed to help drivers navigate roads using a combination of cameras and artificial intelligence. A few days ago, Musk boasted on social media that within a few months, FSD should be able to drive to aGPS points on roads with no map data at all.
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There isn't a timetable as to when the investigation will end.
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