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In short, the Elon Musk-led company's relationship with federal regulators is as rocky as ever — and its notably laissez-faire approach to what it misleadingly calls "self-driving" tech isn't exactly scoring points in Washington, DC.finding that drivers who use Tesla's controversial "Full Self-Driving" add-on "were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task" and that Tesla "did not adequately ensure that drivers maintained their attention.
At the time, the regulator revealed that it had opened a fresh investigation into the automaker's purported fix, asking it to provide more information. The NHTSA identified at least 20 crashes involving Tesla vehicles that had the latest Autopilot update installed. Nine of these 20 crashes involved vehicles slamming into objects in front of them. The regulator wants the EV maker to turn over a wealth of data, including telemetry collected during crashes involving either Autopilot or Full Self-Driving.
Is reality catching up with the mercurial billionaire, with several government investigations probing Tesla and its driver assistance tech, right around the time the company is
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