#Tesla is recalling nearly all 2 million of its cars on #US roads to limit the use of its Autopilot feature following a two-year probe by US safety regulators of roughly 1,000 crashes in which the feature was engaged #EV
The recall comes two days after a detailed investigation was published by the #WashingtonPost that found at least eight serious accidents, including some fatalities, in which the the #Autopilot feature should not have been engaged in the first place.
The US NHTSA has issued a recall on every Tesla vehicle sold in the US with the Autopilot feature installed. Calling the feature a safety hazard as it can be too easily misused due to inadequate driver monitoring.
The safety recall requires Tesla to perform a software update on all affected vehicles that will force drivers to monitor the vehicle more closely.
No word if a similar recall will be made in Canada.
Tesla Is Recalling Nearly All Vehicles Sold in US to Fix an Autopilot Fault.
The Tesla recall, which affects more than two million vehicles, follows a two-year investigation by the US government into a series of crashes linked to the Autopilot system.
Cruise is taking all its vehicles off public roads amid expanded safety probe -CNBC 11/15/23
Feds have no idea how many times cruise driverless cars hit pedestrians. Last mo., CA ordered Cruise driverless cars to stop operating in the state after a Cruise vehicle dragged & injured a pedestrian in SF. The NTSA launched a “preliminary investigation” into the company's cars-.
A former Tesla employee, who said he was harassed, threatened and eventually fired after expressing safety concerns, leaked personnel records and data about the company’s Autopilot driver-assistance software, including thousands of accident reports.
The German Handelsblatt really did an amazing job in investigating this story!
Tesla's autopilot seems to be only semi-reliable. Far from foolproof, it relies on drivers to be vigilant in a new way.
I sometimes think: as a pedestrian and user of mass transit, a failure could impact me, too …
"The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash
A reconstruction of the wreck shows how human error and emerging technology can collide with deadly results"
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface start-up Neuralink has begun recruiting people for its first human trial; discarded bodies will be used to train Tesla Autopilot.
"Yes, #Isaacson spoke to “adversaries” like Jeff #Bezos and Bill #Gates, but not (at least per the list) to line workers, not to #Jenna, not to anyone whose family member died in an #Autopilot crash, nor anyone who tried to organize a #Tesla plant.
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It’s the book Musk would have written himself.""
3 Jahre später kein bisschen weiser? Klage wegen Todesfall mit Teslas Autopilot
Der berühmteste Todesfall mit einem Tesla-Autopilot wurde 3 Jahre später erschreckend wiederholt. Hinterbliebene werfen Tesla vor, nichts verbessert zu haben.
Complex issues will surface in the courtroom like #HumanFactors, mode confusion and #AutomatedDriving system internals that, frankly, judges and juries are going to be strained to understand and appreciate.
But the #NHTSA, in its infinite wisdom, is just tickled pink to have private litigation deal with #Tesla’s vast #Autopilot wrongdoings because the agency can continue to do nothing, which they do well.