Fatal Tesla crash investigation suggests Autopilot is still safer than humans
After a Tesla driver fatally crashed into a truck last May while using the vehicle’s autopilot feature, a federal investigation was launched to determine the feature’s safety. Some thought a recall was imminent, but that investigation has now concluded, with no recall in sight. Though the loss of life is tragic and shows Tesla still has much work to do, the 13-page report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seems to suggest the vehicles are still safer on the whole because of the feature. A key finding was that airbag-deploying crashes dropped “by almost 40 percent” since Tesla introduced the…
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