In a “black day” for Elon Musk and the still fledgling autonomous vehicle industry, the Tesla company agreed on Thursday to recall no fewer than 362,000 of its cars equipped with the disputed Beta Full Self-Driving software ( FSD), which is piling up complaints from both users and federal regulators. The criticisms are multiple, but they point firstly to the fact that the independent driving system “many times it does 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 self-driving vehicles “exceed speed limits or travel through intersections in an illegal or unpredictable manner, increasing the risk of a crash.”
In a statement, Tesla merely noted that will release a software update (OTA), free of charge to users, but said it was “not aware of any injuries or deaths” that may be related to its cars with autonomous steering systems. The automaker said it only had 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 the autonomous driving systems, but at the same time the authorities must ensure the safety of the millions of common 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 y Model Y 2020-2023 2016-2023, all 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 also 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 seemed like a company advertisement, and strictly speaking it was the opposite: it was an advertisement for a campaign once morest 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:
* (Archyde.com Report – Argentine News)
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