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

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

The US Nationwide Freeway Site 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 handbook to notice that Autopilot now “detects and slows down for emergency automobiles’ lights at night time,” however further related crashes have occurred since then.

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

Right here’s the video that it launched concerning the new footage. (Warning: a number 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 function, they even stated that the driving force was intoxicated. We will additionally see that there was greater than loads of time to react if the driving force was paying consideration.

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

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

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

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