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Tesla vehicles are shown at a sales and service center in Vista, California, June 3, 2022.Mike Blake | ReutersThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has initiated two more special crash investigations into incidents that involved Tesla electric vehicles, and where the company's advanced driver assistance systems are thought to have been a factor in the crash.Tesla offers a standard driver assistance package called Autopilot in all its new cars today. It also sells additional features in a package marketed as…

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration announced Thursday that it is opening an investigation into the self-driving technology behind General Motors' robotaxi fleet. This announcement follows three reported accidents allegedly caused by Cruise vehicles braking hard or otherwise becoming immobilized in traffic, creating unannounced obstacles for other vehicles and resulting in rear-end collisions with other motorists. "With respect to the incidents of hard braking, NHTSA has received three reports of the…

A report filed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) this week has opened another investigation into GM’s robotaxi company Cruise. According to the filing, the NHTSA has received multiple reports of Cruise’s autonomous EVs blocking roadways and stopping abruptly, causing accidents with other drivers on roads. Cruise is a startup founded in 2013 in San Francisco before being was purchased by GM in 2016. The startup immediately began converting the automaker’s Chevy Bolt EV…

Tesla Inc told US auto safety regulators it has reports of two new crash fatalities in Model 3 cars tied to advanced driver assistance systems in the month ending October 15, data released Tuesday by the government shows. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in June began releasing data provided by automakers on reports of crashes tied to driver assistance systems like Tesla's Autopilot. "NHTSA has reviewed these crashes and is conducting appropriate follow-up. NHTSA uses many data sources in its…

Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla Autopilot or General Motors Super Cruise often treat their vehicles as fully self-driving despite warnings, a new study has found. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), an industry funded group that prods automakers to make safer vehicles, said on Tuesday a survey found regular users of Super Cruise, Nissan/Infiniti ProPILOT Assist and Tesla Autopilot "said they were more likely to perform non-driving-related activities like eating or texting while…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tesla is not physically recalling 1.1 million vehicles, saying the company is only issuing a "tiny software" update to fix the pinching window problem.The earlier reports quoted a safety recall report Tesla submitted with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that the electric car-maker has recalled around 1.1 million vehicles to prevent drivers from getting pinched by the windows while being rolled up.The windows in these Tesla cars would not recognise certain objects…

San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit in the US over a phantom braking problem that the lawsuit alleged turned "a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare".The lawsuit, filed by Tesla owner Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern District of California seeking punitive damages, claimed there are "hundreds of thousands" of customers that could seek to join his class action suit against the company, reports The Verge.The lawsuit accused the electric car-maker…

A California owner of a Tesla Model 3 sued the electric vehicle maker in a proposed class action over cars suddenly stopping for non-existent obstacles, calling it a "frightening and dangerous nightmare," according to the lawsuit. Tesla has rushed its autonomous driving cars to market with unsafe technology, including its driver assistant system which the company calls Autopilot or Full Self-Driving, and its emergency braking system, according to the lawsuit by Jose Alvarez Toledo of San Francisco. This adds to growing…

US auto safety regulators will extend a deadline for public input on General Motors and Ford Motor petitions seeking to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles without human controls like steering wheels and brake pedals. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Thursday made the 30-day extension of the public comment on the automaker requests after cities like San Francisco and Oakland, California, state transportation agencies, the National Association of City Transportation Officials and…

Secretary of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks on new transportation initiatives at an event with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the South Court Auditorium at Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 07, 2022 in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesThe Department of Transportation said on Friday that Steven Cliff, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, plans to leave the agency in September after three months in the top job.Ann Carlson, the chief…