The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

  • @[email protected]English
    47•5 hours ago

    Tesla, which has repeatedly said the system cannot drive itself and human drivers must be ready to intervene at all times.

    how is it legal to label this “full self driving” ?

    • @postmateDumbassEnglish
      5•2 hours ago

      It drives your full self, it doesn’t break you into components and ship those seperately.

    • Chaotic EntropyEnglish
      14•4 hours ago

      “I freely admit that the refreshing sparkling water I sell is poisonous and should not be consumed.”

      • donEnglish
        1•2 hours ago

        “But to be clear, although I most certainly know for a fact that the refreshing sparkling water I sell is exceedingly poisonous and should in absolutely no way be consumed by any living (and most dead*) beings, I will nevertheless very heartily encourage you to buy it. What you do with it after is entirely up to you.

        *Exceptions may apply. You might be one.

    • @krashmoEnglish
      9•4 hours ago

      That’s pretty clearly just a disclaimer meant to shield them from legal repercussions. They know people aren’t going to do that.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•3 hours ago

        Last time I checked that disclaimer was there because officially Teslas are SAE level 2, which let’s them evade regulations that higher SAE levels have, and in practice Tesla FSD beta is SAE level 4.

    • @FedizenEnglish
      2•4 hours ago

      Literally its “partial self driving” or “drive assist”