TESLA AUTOPILOT
Coverage of Tesla's Autopilot, a driver assistance system that has come under fire after several high-profile crashes.
NHTSA said Tuesday it was not seeking a recall of the vehicles but said its analysis of data provided by Tesla "produced significant concerns about driver distraction during the time that it was available."
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Tesla and Musk are under legal pressure from consumers, investors, securities regulators and federal prosecutors questioning whether the company has over-hyped its progress toward self-driving vehicles during the last eight years.
NHTSA is probing an incident in which the driver of a 2022 Tesla Model Y reportedly failed to stop for a school bus displaying warning lights and struck a student.
Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.
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