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The nation’s top auto-safety regulator is losing its top administrator Steven Cliff, less than three months after lawmakers confirmed his appointment to the job. In a statement on Friday, Mr. Cliff said he was leaving the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to rejoin the California Air Resources Board, where he’d worked previously and will become its executive officer. Mr. Cliff, who was confirmed in late May by Congress, was…

Last Updated: July 30, 2022, 13:26 ISTTesla's Autopilot system kills another motorcyclist (Credit: Tesla)The driver of the Tesla reportedly did not see the motorcyclist and collided with the back of the motorcycle A Tesla vehicle has allegedly killed another motorcyclist, this time in Utah state in the US when a driver using Autopilot slammed into the rear of his bike. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has added the fatal accident to its list. Forty-eight crashes are under investigation, 39…

A Tesla vehicle has allegedly killed another motorcyclist, this time in the Utah state in the US when a driver using Autopilot slammed into the rear of his bike.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has added the fatal accident to its list. Forty-eight crashes are under investigation, 39 of which involve Tesla vehicles.The Utah highway patrol team said that the incident occurred on Sunday on southbound I-15, according to local reports.The driver of the Tesla reportedly did not see the motorcyclist and…

A motorcyclist in Draper, Utah, was killed early Sunday morning when a Tesla driver using Autopilot slammed into the rear of his bike. It is the latest crash involving Tesla’s advanced driver-assist system to draw scrutiny from federal investigators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The incident occurred just after 1AM Sunday on southbound Interstate 15, according to local reports. The motorcyclist, who has not been identified, was traveling southbound near the Salt Lake and Utah County…

General Motors and Ford Motor have asked US auto safety regulators to grant exemptions 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 Wednesday published the separate petitions and opened them for public comment for 30 days. NHTSA has authority to grant petitions to allow a limited number of vehicles to operate on US roads without required human controls. Both automakers want to deploy up to…

Zoox, a self-driving technology firm owned by Amazon.com Inc, said that it was gearing up to launch its robotaxi business, self-certifying that its vehicle with no pedals or steering wheel meets U.S. federal regulations and applying for a permit in California to test-drive it. "We really invested the extra time and resources to build a vehicle that doesn't require exemptions, and then that basically lets us control our own destiny and also deploy our vehicles at scale," Jesse Levison, Zoox's co-founder and chief…

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened another probe into the Elon Musk-run Tesla crash that killed a motorcyclist in California earlier this month.The latest probe aims to find whether the Autopilot advanced driver assistance system in a 2021 Tesla Model Y was in use at the time of the fatal crash, TechCrunch reported late on Monday.Earlier this month, the US agency opened a probe into one such fatal crash in which a pedestrian was killed and involved a 2018 Tesla Model 3 in…

US auto safety regulators scrapped a 2019 proposal that would have allowed automakers to offer a variety of sound choices for electric vehicles and other "quiet cars." Electric vehicles are often harder to hear at lower speeds than gasoline-powered engines. Under rules mandated by Congress and finalized by NHTSA, automakers must add sounds to hybrid and electric vehicles when traveling at speeds of up to 18.6 miles per hour (30 km per hour) to help prevent injuries among pedestrians, cyclists and the blind. NHTSA in 2019…

Well, that’s a bummer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration won’t be moving forward with a proposal to let electric vehicle owners pick their own low-speed sounds, citing a lack of “supportable data.” The move was first reported by Reuters. Back in 2019, NHTSA introduced a proposed rule-making that would have allowed drivers to “select the sound they prefer from the set of sounds installed in the vehicle.” The idea was an amendment to a previous rule requiring EVs to make fake sounds at low speeds to…

A Tesla logo is seen in Salt Lake City. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed Friday, July 8, 2022, that it sent a Special Crash Investigations team to probe the crash of a Tesla into the back of a semitrailer at a rest area near Gainesville, Fla., earlier in the week. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File The U.S. government's auto safety watchdog is sending investigators to another Tesla crash, this time…