I hate to say, but as the article lays out they are investigating this.
Excerpts about NTSB and NHTSA reporting from the article:
Tesla’s cars are once again involved in the most accidents according to a study by LendingTree insurance. It found that Tesla drivers are involved in more accidents than drivers of any other brand.
The fatal crashes attracted attention from United States government agencies, including the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NHTSA’s analysis concluded that the Tesla Autopilot death rate is higher than the reported estimates. In addition to fatal crashes, there have been many nonfatal ones. The incidents were caused by the ADAS failing to recognize other vehicles, insufficient Autopilot driver engagement, and it is argued, poor operational design.
Collectively, these cases culminated in a general recall in December 2023 of all vehicles equipped with Autopilot. Tesla claims it resolved these issues with an over-the-air software update. Immediately after closing its investigation in April 2024, NHTSA opened a recall query to determine the effectiveness of the recall.
As of October 2024, there have been hundreds of documented nonfatal incidents involving Autopilot and fifty-one reported fatalities, forty-four of which NHTSA investigations or expert testimony later verified and two that NHTSA’s Office of Defect Investigations verified as happening during the engagement of Full Self-Driving (FSD).
The LendingTree study also invites the hilariously obvious conclusion that Tesla drivers are assholes (though there’s a rather interesting argument that it may not simply be “assholes are bad drivers” but that Tesla’s misleading advertising may play a large role in the problem by convincing consumers that their “autopilot” is much more capable than it truly is)
Here is a an example of what congressional oversight of regulatory agencies like the NHTSA looks like.
Here are Tesla and Waymo being called to testify before congress about the safety issues in their cars.
Here is a rather daunting list of all the (US?) recalls thru March 2025, which both dispels the common line about most of the recalls being solved with OTA updates and provides a great deal of schadenfreude (fuck musk).
I hate to say, but as the article lays out they are investigating this.
Excerpts about NTSB and NHTSA reporting from the article:
The LendingTree study also invites the hilariously obvious conclusion that Tesla drivers are assholes (though there’s a rather interesting argument that it may not simply be “assholes are bad drivers” but that Tesla’s misleading advertising may play a large role in the problem by convincing consumers that their “autopilot” is much more capable than it truly is)
Here is a an example of what congressional oversight of regulatory agencies like the NHTSA looks like.
Here are Tesla and Waymo being called to testify before congress about the safety issues in their cars.
Here is a rather daunting list of all the (US?) recalls thru March 2025, which both dispels the common line about most of the recalls being solved with OTA updates and provides a great deal of schadenfreude (fuck musk).
(edit: spelling)