Safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot technology
The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board slammed Tesla and unnamed “government regulators” for jeopardizing traffic safety by not taking measures to prevent “foreseeable abuse” of Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assist feature.
In 2017, the NTSB recommended that automakers design driver-assist systems to prevent human driver inattention and misuse. Automakers including Volkswagen, Nissan and BMW reported on their attempts to meet the recommendations, but Tesla never got back to the NTSB. “Sadly, one manufacturer has ignored us, and that manufacturer is Tesla,” Sumwalt said Tuesday. “We’ve heard nothing, we’re still waiting.”Sumwalt also criticized drivers who use Autopilot as if it were a self-driving system.
Other car companies make similar systems, though none are as technologically aggressive as Tesla’s, and none refer to “self driving,” which even at Tesla remains an aspirational term. Cars that can fully drive themselves are not being sold by anyone to individual customers today, and most industry experts say it will be years until that happens. Tesla has said the upfront $7,000 buys current features plus self-drive features to be added over time.
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