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At the same time, Tesla said it would start using a new “Safety Score” feature to evaluate owners’ driving habits and that it only allows the best-performing ones into the Full Self-Driving beta.
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In late September, it shipped another software update that allowed owners to request participation in the beta test. Tesla recently started expanding access to the beta version of its so-called Full Self-Driving software, which does not yet make the company’s cars anywhere near fully autonomous. Regulators want to know more about the “Full Self-Driving” beta test, which Tesla is expanding
Earlier this year, Tesla only issued a recall for failing touchscreen displays on more than 100,000 of its cars after much public pressure from NHTSA. In particular, the company has performed a number of mechanical fixes on cars over the years that were labeled as “goodwill” repairs instead of doing them under warranty - which some argue is an effort to evade issuing recalls. This is one of the first times the government safety agency has directly questioned Tesla about what critics of the company say is a pattern of actively dodging recalls. Lastly, the agency wants Tesla to provide any “technical and/or legal basis” for not filing for a recall. The division also wants Tesla to provide a list of any “field incidents or other events that motivated the release” of the software, presumably to see if there are related crashes it’s not aware of. NHTSA’s Office of Defects Division is specifically asking Tesla for an internal timeline of the decision to deploy the September software update, any internal investigations or studies the company performed into the matter, and specific dates when the software went out to customer vehicles. “As Tesla is aware, the Safety Act imposes an obligation on manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment to initiate a recall by notifying NHTSA when they determine vehicles or equipment they produced contain defects related to motor vehicle safety or do not comply with an applicable motor vehicle safety standard,” the agency writes in one of the letters. But NHTSA wants to know why Tesla didn’t go through the formal recall process with this update, potentially setting up a protracted fight over whether over-the-air updates that can materially change how cars operate should be subjected to the government’s stringent automotive safety rules.
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Tesla shipped a software update to its cars meant to fix the issue with its driver assistance system in September. The agency wants a lot of info about Tesla’s decision to ship a software fix without a recall
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NHTSA opened a formal probe into the problem in August and said it had logged at least 11 incidents since 2018 where drivers crashed into parked emergency vehicles - including 17 injuries and one fatality. The concern with Autopilot’s inability to “see” emergency vehicles stretches back years. In March, it disclosed that it had 23 active investigations into crashes that may have involved Autopilot. The safety regulator’s concerns were outlined in two letters published Wednesday - the latest in a series of recent moves by NHTSA that show it’s paying far more serious attention to Tesla now than it ever did during the Trump administration. NHTSA is also asking Tesla for more information about the growing public beta test of its incomplete Full Self-Driving software, the recently launched “Safety Score” evaluation process for entering the program, and the non-disclosure agreements Tesla was making participants sign up until this week. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to know why Tesla didn’t issue a recall for Autopilot after it became obvious the driver assistance system had a problem “seeing” parked emergency vehicles.