The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into a fatal crash earlier this month involving a Tesla Model Y and a motorcyclist as part of its investigation on advanced driver-assistance systems. If all of this sounds familiar, that might be for a reason; Bloomberg reports that 38 of the 47 investigations into crashes as part of the ADAS probe have involved a Tesla model of one sort or another.
That means Tesla's systems have been involved in 80% of total crashes investigated. Some 18 fatalities have been linked to these crashes involving ADAS systems in the larger investigation that began in 2016.
This generalized ADAS investigation is separate from the existing NHTSA probe into Tesla's ADAS systems announced in 2021. That investigation, which began with crashes into parked emergency vehicles, was escalated last month to include 191 cases of crashes involving the systems. Many of those have already been linked to driver inattentiveness, use off highways, and use in inclement weather.
Tesla began rolling out version 10.13 of what it calls "Full Self-Driving Beta" earlier today. As ever, the program remains a level two driver assistance system and cannot in any way be considered a feature-complete full self driving program.
