US auto-safety regulators have a message for Tesla Inc. owners intending to use their children to test automated-driving technology: Don’t.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it uses controlled procedures and “it could be highly dangerous for anyone to attempt to test vehicle technologies on their own.”
“No one should risk their life, or the life of anyone else, to test the performance of vehicle technology,” the agency said. At one point, a child is shown standing in the street as the vehicle begins moving slowly and then comes to a stop before reaching the child.child-sized mannequins. The probe, which was launched after a dozen collisions at crash scenes involving first-responder vehicles, signalled a change in regulatory posture toward Tesla after years of complaints from safety advocates about the company’s marketing of its driver-assistance systems as Autopilot and Full Self Driving.
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