Tesla Tops List of Crashes Thought to Involve Driver-Assistance Technology
The auto industry’s top safety regulator said Wednesday that it had received reports of nearly 400 recent crashes in which advanced driver-assistance features were engaged during or immediately before the incident. More than two-thirds of those crashes happened in a Tesla vehicle, it said.
Tesla was among the first in the auto industry to roll out its driver-assistance features at scale, offering them on vehicles built as far back as late 2014.
The National Highway Traffic Safety…