Real Story Behind Tesla Autopilot Crash in Model S From Tesla
We learned yesterday evening that NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Model S, Tesla wrote on its official blog.
Company has also recognized and described how the autopilot mode accident occurs. The company said that this is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles. It is important to emphasize that the NHTSA action is simply a preliminary evaluation to determine whether the system worked according to expectations.
Following standard practice, Tesla informed NHTSA about the incident immediately after it occurred.
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