A brand new report has revealed damning footage displaying a number of Tesla automobiles on Autopilot crashing into police automobiles on the freeway.

Tesla has been beneath federal investigation about its Autopilot probably having an issue with crashes with emergency automobiles on the aspect of the highway.

The US Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) first opened an investigation into Tesla Autopilot over its attainable involvement in 11 crashes involving emergency and first responder automobiles again in 2021.

It has since ramped up the investigation to incorporate 16 crashes.

Shortly after the announcement, Tesla up to date its proprietor’s guide to notice that Autopilot now “detects and slows down for emergency automobiles’ lights at night time,” however extra comparable crashes have occurred since then.

Now the investigation is coming again into the information as a result of Wall Road Journal has obtained and launched some in-car footage from a few of these crashes.

Right here’s the video that it launched in regards to the new footage. (Warning: a few of the content material is graphic.)

Electrek’s Take

First off, let’s be clear. What this video exhibits are consumer errors. Plain and easy. For the love of god, in the principle video that they characteristic, they even mentioned that the motive force was intoxicated. We will additionally see that there was greater than loads of time to react if the motive force was paying consideration.

If the drivers had used the Autopilot as meant, these accidents wouldn’t have occurred. So it’s arduous accountable Tesla for any of this.

Nonetheless, it’s nonetheless a foul search for Tesla as a result of these crashes occurred on the identical time that Elon Musk claimed that Tesla would obtain full self-driving functionality any day.

I nonetheless suppose that Autopilot and Full Self-Driving package deal customers ought to use the options as guided within the consumer guide, which implies paying consideration always and being able to take management, however on the identical time, it doesn’t require a giant stretch of the creativeness to know why folks would suppose Autopilot ought to be capable to detect these automobiles.

Autopilot ought to be capable to detect and keep away from these crashes.