{"id":85026,"date":"2021-09-20T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85026"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:57:10","slug":"can-you-believe-tesla-is-allowed-to-get-away-with-selling-cars-advertised-as-autopilot-that-crash-and-kill-more-than-any-other-vehicle-per-capita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85026","title":{"rendered":"Can you believe Tesla is allowed to get away with selling cars advertised as &#8216;autopilot&#8217; that crash and kill more than any other vehicle per capita?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NTSB Urges Tesla: Address Safety Before Furthering &#8220;Misleading And Irresponsible&#8221; Full-Self Driving<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the results of a formal investigation being undertaken by the NHTSA into Tesla&#8217;s Autopilot, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has led the way in taking action.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator urged Tesla to address safety concerns associated with its vehicles already before expanding its self-driving features further,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-09-19\/u-s-investigator-urges-tesla-to-fix-self-driving-concerns-wsj\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>\u00a0this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said: \u201cBasic safety issues have to be addressed before they then expand it to other city streets and other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Homendy continued, arguing that the\u00a0term \u2018full self-driving\u2019 was \u201cmisleading and irresponsible,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0according to Bloomberg. It&#8217;s easily one of the boldest critical statements by a meaningful regulator about the &#8220;product&#8221; since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB is primarily tasked with investigating crashes and issuing safety recommendations, but the agency doesn&#8217;t have any regulatory authority. That means that in terms of forcing action from Tesla, the NHTSA&#8217;s investigation may wind up being more material in nature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/derp_3.png?itok=xnGmgPTb\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/derp_3.png?itok=xnGmgPTb\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/derp_3.png?itok=xnGmgPTb\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"29cd2bf0-c902-461c-992e-9ee6e31bdd8f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the NTSB has been far more critical of Tesla over the last few years than the NHTSA has been. So far, the NHTSA has failed to follow the NTSB&#8217;s lead. Time will tell as to whether or not the NHTSA&#8217;s &#8220;formal&#8221; investigation could signal a shift of sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, last month\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/tesla-shares-sink-pre-market-after-nhtsa-announces-formal-investigation-autopilot-all\">we reported<\/a>\u00a0that regulators at the NHTSA in the United States had finally come to their senses and opened the long-overdue investigation.\u00a0The NHTSA said the investigation includes Tesla&#8217;s Model X, S and 3 for model years 2014-2021. The broad range of models and model years means that this could be the large-scale investigation that skeptics have been requesting for years, we noted.<\/p>\n<p>The NHTSA said the investigation would assess technologies, methods &#8220;used to monitor, assist, and enforce the driver&#8217;s engagement&#8221; during autopilot operation, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/ntsb-urges-tesla-address-safety-concerns-further-misleading-and-irresponsible-full-self\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/ntsb-urges-tesla-address-safety-concerns-further-misleading-and-irresponsible-full-self<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTSB Urges Tesla: Address Safety Before Furthering &#8220;Misleading And Irresponsible&#8221; Full-Self Driving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}