Tesla Automation Faulted by NTSB in 2016 Fatal Florida Crash
- National Transportation Safety Board voted in Washington
- Probe focused on restricting autopilot to certain roads
A test driver removes his hands from the steering wheel of a Tesla Model S in Boxberg, Germany, on July 4, 2017.
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Tesla Inc.’s design of its Autopilot system contributed to a 2016 fatal crash in Florida, U.S. accident investigators concluded as they recommended all automakers prevent autonomous driving systems from being used on roads for which they are not designed.
The National Transportation Safety Board, in its first probe of autonomous driving technologies, recommended Tuesday that systems such as Tesla’s Autopilot be unavailable when the vehicle is traveling on a road where its use is inappropriate.