NHTSA concludes Tesla Autopilot investigation after linking the system to 14 deaths

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NHTSA concludes Tesla Autopilot investigation after linking the system to 14 deaths
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into Tesla ’s Autopilot driver assistance system after reviewing hundreds of crashes, including 13 fatal incidents that led to 14 deaths. The organization has ruled that these accidents were due to driver misuse of the system.

The organization investigated nearly 1,000 crashes from January of 2018 until August of 2023, accounting for 29 total deaths. The NHTSA found that there was “insufficient data to make an assessment” for around half of these crashes. In some incidents, the other party was at fault or the Tesla drivers weren’t using the Autopilot system.

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