Tesla has been involved in a number of different safety probes over the past year, some of which were even caused by events or accidents that happened on the road.
On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it would deny a petition to seek formal review of 662,000 Tesla vehicles, as reported by Reuters.
The vehicles, according to the petition, allegedly had problems with abrupt and unintended acceleration – a problem that would most certainly be the business of the NHTSA to follow up on.
The agency said it reviewed the December 2019 petition into the Tesla Model S, Model X, and Model 3 and determined that the issue was simply “caused by pedal misapplication.”
Continuing, the NHTSA wrote, “NHTSA found no evidence of fault in the accelerator pedal assemblies, motor control systems, or brake systems that contributed to the cited incidents.”
The NHTSA added, “there is no evidence of a design factor contributing to increased likelihood of pedal misapplication. The theory provided of a potential electronic cause of SUA in the subject vehicles is based upon inaccurate assumptions about system design and log data.”
Tesla has logs of its vehicles and what happens, so when owners try to claim a safety problem, the automaker can review its vehicle data and extract the truth.
In any case, safety issues on the road are to be taken with the utmost severity. Tesla’s cars have been found to be very safe in the past, especially with Autopilot engaged. Elon Musk has previously said safety is Tesla’s number one priority.
Aside from a handful of manufacturer errors that have come to light as Tesla delivers more vehicles, its cars are actually pretty safe, as depicted by a few horrific crashes, in which the drivers’ lives were preserved.
