Tesla reports two new fatal crashes involving driver assistance systems - Yahoo Finance

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc told U.S. car information regulators it has reports of 2 caller clang fatalities successful Model 3 cars tied to precocious operator assistance systems successful the period ending October 15, information released Tuesday by the authorities shows.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) successful June began releasing information provided by automakers connected reports of crashes tied to operator assistance systems similar Tesla's Autopilot.

"NHTSA has reviewed these crashes and is conducting due follow-up. NHTSA uses galore information sources successful its enforcement processes," the bureau said Tuesday.

NHTSA issued an bid successful June 2021 requiring automakers and tech companies to instantly study each crashes involving precocious operator assistance systems (ADAS) and vehicles equipped with automated driving systems tested connected nationalist roads. The information regulator said Tuesday it uses information submitted by automakers nether its 2021 bid arsenic portion of its investigations.

Of the 18 fatal crashes reported since July 2021 that had to bash with operator assistance systems, astir each progressive Tesla vehicles.

The bureau has emphasized crashes are tracked by idiosyncratic automakers successful antithetic ways and discouraged comparisons of show among automakers partially owed to deficiency of broad metrics to way however wide each strategy is utilized oregon however crashes are reported.

Separately, since 2016, NHTSA has opened 38 peculiar investigations of crashes involving Tesla vehicles wherever precocious operator assistance systems specified arsenic Autopilot were suspected of being used. Overall, 19 clang deaths person been reported successful those Tesla-related investigations.

Tesla did not respond to a petition for comment.

It has said Autopilot allows vehicles to brake and steer automatically wrong their lanes but does not marque them susceptible of driving themselves.

In June, NHTSA upgraded its defect probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles with Autopilot, a required measurement earlier it could question a recall. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Dhanya Ann Thoppil)