After the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended last year that automakers provide car-specific instructions for extinguishing electric vehicle (EV) fires, eight of the 22 manufacturers have completed the suggested actions. On Wednesday, the NTSB said Honda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Porsche, Volkswagen, and Volvo completed the suggestions issued in a recommendation for emergency response guides to […]
According to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday, it has closed an investigation into a fatal Tesla crash from August of last year, reports Reuters. A 2019 Tesla Model 3 was being driven in Saratoga, California, using the car’s Autopilot feature. The driver did a manual override and pressed the accelerator while on Autopilot. […]
In a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent on Monday, U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) head called on Tesla to fulfill past recommendations in which Tesla was asked to limit where the company’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving system can operate, according to MarketWatch. The letter also asked Tesla to put more parameters in […]
Following a fatal Tesla Model S crash that took place in Texas and led to a serious car fire in April, a U.S. agency investigating the accident has maintained that a driver and passenger were present during the crash. While a witness statement noted that nobody was in the driver’s seat during the accident, the […]
In a letter addressed to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officially took notice of how autonomous driving technology is currently being tested, and lobbied for changes in regulation thereof — reports CNBC. The letter, which name-drops Tesla 16 times, details how essentially unfinished driver-less tech like Tesla’s Full […]
