The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration is expanding its probe of issues with Tesla's self-driving technology, and is now demanding more, and more detailed, records from the electric automobile manufacturer.
Tesla will not comply, because Tesla never complies with such demands.
Tesla must send extensive new records to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration as part of an Autopilot safety probe — or else face steep fines.
If Tesla fails to supply the federal agency with information about its advanced driver assistance systems, which are marketed as Autopilot, Full Self-Driving and FSD Beta options in the U.S., the company faces "civil penalties of up to $26,315 per violation per day," with a maximum of $131,564,183 for a related series of daily violations, according to the NHTSA.
The agency initiated an investigation into Autopilot safety in 2021 after it identified a string of crashes in which Tesla vehicles using Autopilot had collided with stationary first responders' vehicles and road work vehicles.
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A notice on the NHTSA website in February 2023 said Tesla's FSD Beta driver assistance system may "allow the vehicle to act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution."
According to data tracked by the NHTSA, there have been 21 known collisions resulting in fatalities that involved Tesla vehicles equipped with the company's driver assistance systems — higher than any other automaker that offers a similar system.
According to a separate letter out Thursday, the NHTSA is also reviewing a petition from an automotive safety researcher, Ronald Belt, who asked the agency to reopen an earlier probe to determine the underlying causes of "sudden unintended acceleration" events that have been reported to the NHTSA.
The issue is not that Tesla's so-called "Full Self Driving" does not deliver. It is that lying about their capabilities, using ordinary drivers as testers, and actively concealing information from regulators.
They will not respond to the threat of fines. Serve a subpoena, or better yet get a search warrant and raid the place.
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