On a “black day” for Elon Musk and the still nascent autonomous vehicle industry, The Tesla company agreed this Thursday to withdraw from the market for revision no less than 362,000 of its carsequipped with the questioned software Full Self-Driving Beta (FSD)which piles up risk complaints from both users and federal regulators.
The criticisms are multiplebut they aim in the first place at the fact that the independent driving system “exceeds the permitted speeds and many times they do not respect road safety laws”which should translate into obvious chances of accidents.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had indicated that Tesla’s autonomous vehicles “exceed speed limits or travel through intersections in an illegal or unpredictable manner, increasing the risk of a crash.”
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In a statement, Tesla merely noted that will release a software update (OTA), without charge for users, but make sure you are “not aware of any injury or death” that may be related to your cars with autonomous steering systems. The automaker required that it only have 18 warranty claims.
The recall of units from the market, a measure that Tesla complied with but with which it did not agree, It effectively represents an unusual intervention by federal regulators in a field testing process the company believes is crucial to the development of self-driving cars. In short, Tesla needs these vehicles to circulate as a daily test of autonomous driving systems, but at the same time the authorities must ensure the safety of millions of ordinary drivers.
The FSD Beta system is used by hundreds of thousands of Tesla customers
Unit recall includes vehicles Model S, Model X, Model 3 2017-2023 and Model Y 2020-2023 2016-2023, all of them equipped with the FSD Beta software.
NHTSA already had an ongoing investigation that it opened in 2021 into 830,000 Tesla vehicles with driver assistance systems. Autopilot, for another series of accidents with parked vehicles for emergencies.
In addition, NHTSA is examining whether Tesla’s cars adequately ensure that drivers are paying attentionwhile saying that despite the FSD’s withdrawal, its “investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot and associated vehicle systems remains open and active.”
A high impact video
In the midst of criticism of Tesla for its vehicles, there was a video that played in the middle of the Super Bowl broadcast last weekend, which was highly impactful. It is that in the middle of the scheduled shows, images of Tesla’s autonomous cars appeared in what looked like a company advertisement, and strictly speaking it was the opposite: it was an advertisement for a campaign against Tesla, and it showed how they were acting autonomous cars they ran over mannequins of boys or baby carriages, in addition to ignore stop signs on several occasions:
The video ended by asking why NHTSA was still allowing Tesla’s self-driving systems, and just days later the mandatory “recall” was announced.
* (Reuters Report – Argentine News)
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