Tag: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Car Crashes
Nearly 400 crashes in the United States in 10 months involved cars using advanced driver-assistance technologies, the federal…
Auto Safety Agency Expands Tesla Investigation
The federal government’s top auto-safety agency is significantly expanding an investigation into Tesla and its Autopilot driver-assistance system…
How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla’s Autopilot? No One Knows.
Every three months, Tesla publishes a safety report that provides the number of miles between crashes when drivers…
Goodyear Recalls Tires That Federal Government Says Had High Failure Rate
Goodyear has voluntarily recalled more than 170,000 out-of-production tires that prompted lawsuits claiming that they had caused crashes…
Regulators Investigate Tesla Over Reports of ‘Phantom Braking’
The federal government’s main auto-safety regulator has opened a preliminary investigation into sudden braking by Tesla cars equipped…
Tesla Recalls Cars With Full Self-Driving to Prevent Rolling Stops
Tesla is recalling 54,000 cars equipped with its Full Self-Driving software to disable a feature that in certain…