By Ryan Beene | Bloomberg
US auto security regulators are investigating a 2021 Tesla Mannequin Y crash that killed a motorcyclist in California earlier this month, the newest in a broader examination of collisions suspected to contain the usage of superior driver-assistance techniques.
The incident is the forty seventh since 2016 to be examined within the overview by crash investigators on the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration, 38 of which contain a Tesla Inc. automobile, the company mentioned Monday. A complete of 18 fatalities have been linked to the crashes. Native media reported that the Tesla crash that killed a motorcyclist occurred July 7 in Riverside. Outcomes from early within the investigation confirmed that a Tesla Mannequin Y was headed east within the carpool lane behind a Yamaha V-Star after they collided. The rider was thrown from his motorbike, mentioned Officer Keith Ballantyne, a CHP spokesman.
NHTSA is toughening scrutiny of collisions involving the usage of new applied sciences that may automate elements of the driving process, corresponding to conserving a automobile centered in a lane and navigate turns in sure circumstances. The company earlier this month mentioned it was reviewing a Tesla crash in Florida that killed two.
In June, NHTSA escalated a probe into whether or not Tesla’s suite of automated driver aids is flawed, saying on the time that it has checked out almost 200 crashes of Tesla autos working some model of the corporate’s Autopilot know-how.
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