"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) said on Thursday that it has upgraded the probe it launched in October 2024 to what's known as an "engineering analysis," its highest level of scrutiny. It's a step that is often required before the agency tells a company to issue a recall."
"ODI opened this particular probe after four reported crashes in low-visibility situations, one of which involved the death of a pedestrian. The regulator has spent the last year-and-a-half exchanging information with Tesla, and appears to have identified a handful more incidents where the company's driving software proved insufficient in low-visibility settings."
"ODI also said on Thursday that it has not gotten all the information it wants from Tesla in this process. The investigative office wrote that, while Tesla began "developing an update" to fix the low-visibility problems in June 2024 - before the probe was even opened - the company has still not told ODI whether that fix was deployed, or which vehicles received it."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation escalated its probe into Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software to engineering analysis status, the highest level of investigation. This upgrade follows four reported crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one fatal pedestrian incident. The investigation revealed that Tesla's driving software failed to detect roadway conditions impairing camera visibility or alert drivers when camera performance deteriorated. NHTSA is simultaneously investigating over 80 instances where the software violated traffic safety laws, including running red lights. Tesla began developing a low-visibility fix in June 2024 but has not disclosed deployment details or which vehicles received updates. NHTSA suspects under-reporting of similar crashes due to Tesla's data collection limitations.
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