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The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 90 points 1 month ago

Tesla, which has repeatedly said the system cannot drive itself and human drivers must be ready to intervene at all times.

how is it legal to label this "full self driving" ?

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

It is a legal label, if it was safe it would be "safe full self driving".

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

legal or not it's absolutely bonkers. Safety should be the legal assumption for marketing terms like this, not an optional extra.

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