Safety Regulators Ask Tesla for Details of Autopilot Crashes
- NHTSA releases July 8 questions to automaker after wrecks
- ‘No determinition’ made on whether vehicles are defective
A Model S P85D on display at the Tesla Motors retail store in San Jose, California.
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Federal safety regulators have asked Tesla Motors Inc. for a broad range of documents and information about the automated driving systems in use when a 2015 Model S collided with a truck in a fatal accident in Florida.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it hasn’t made a determination about whether the vehicles are defective and described the information request as a “standard step” in the preliminary evaluation of Tesla’s automated driving system.