WASHINGTON: Texas police will serve search warrants on Tesla on Tuesday to secure data from a fatal vehicle crash, a senior officer told Reuters on Monday, after CEO Elon Musk said company checks showed the car's Autopilot driver assistance system was not engaged.
The crash is the 28th Telsa accident to be investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , which regulates vehicle safety.It is also being probed by the National Transportation Safety Board , which removed Tesla as a party to an earlier investigation into a fatal crash in 2018 after the company made public details of the probe without authorisation.
"We have witness statements from people that said they left to test drive the vehicle without a driver and to show the friend how it can drive itself," Herman said.Tesla's Autopilot is a driver assistance system that handles some driving tasks and allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel at times, but Tesla says its features"require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous".
Musk added that"standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have," referring to road markers that need to be captured by a vehicle's cameras to enable autopilot. NHTSA told Reuters last month it had opened 27 special investigations into crashes of Tesla vehicles, 23 of which remain active, in crashes believed to have been tied to Autopilot use.Tesla did not respond to a request for comment. Its shares closed down 3.4 per cent on Monday before picking up 1.5 per cent in after hours trading following Musk's tweet.
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