The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Monday it had asked Tesla for more information after one of its vehicles was hit by a fire engine, Bloomberg reported.
The agency didn’t specify to TechCrunch what information it was looking for, but NHTSA said one of Tesla’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), either Autopilot or Fully Self-Driving (FSD) Beta, is one of them. It seems they want to determine if it was in use at any point in time. crash.
Contra Costa County Fire Department murmured It asked road users on Saturday to slow down when approaching emergency vehicles.
“Truck 1 was rear-ended by Tesla while blocking I-680 lane in previous accident,” the tweet said. “The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Passengers were rescued and taken to hospital. Four firefighters were also transported for evaluation.”
The tweet included a photo of the accident involving several fully totaled Teslas.
NHTSA has launched dozens of Special Crash Investigations (SCIs) against Tesla vehicles suspected of using Autopilot. Of his 48 SCIs that opened and closed between June 2016 and July 2022, 39 involved Tesla. And of those 39, only 3 were confirmed not to involve Autopilot. NHTSA still has many open investigations into crashes involving Tesla, some of which were fatal. The agency has not commented on the public inquiry.
This latest fatal crash comes days after Tesla issued a recall of 362,758 vehicles and updated its FSD software. This was after regulators said his FSD could cause vehicles to behave unsafely around intersections and cause collisions. The recall follows a Super Bowl ad put out by The Dawn Project, in which he called on regulators to ban the FSD until a serious safety flaw is fixed. rice field.
Tesla is under scrutiny from various federal and state regulatory agencies regarding ADAS safety. Earlier this month, the Justice Department requested information from Tesla about Autopilot and her FSD, potentially as part of a criminal investigation into the company.
