US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), social media shared images of the newly initiated driverless cars in contact with Tesla after the emergence of breaks the traffic laws.
Robotaxis – Patron Elon Musk, the long -awaited company, was in the center of Tesla’s future – on Sunday, on the public roads in Austin, Texas for the first time on public roads.
Videos published online show the situations in which vehicles with a security driver in the passenger seat drive irregularly.
NHTSA said in a statement, “Reference is aware of the events and in contact with the manufacturer to collect additional information,” he said.
BBC contacted Tesla for a comment.
Despite the importance of Musk in the Robotaxi project, the launch of Sunday was a low key.
Analysts, impressive and shareholders, who were invited to wage driving, participated.
Musk congratulated Tesla’s artificial intelligence and chip design teams at the launch in an article on X, which wrote that it was “the climax of a ten -year work”.
However, social media footage seems to show that it is fighting real world driving scenarios.
A video seems to show a robotaxi I stop suddenly As he crossed a parked police car.
Tech News Outlet Techcrunch, cars In addition, the wrong lane accelerated and stuck.
The presentation is limited to 12 taxis and Tesla says that they will not operate in bad weather, that they will not try difficult intersections, or that they will not carry customers under the age of 18.
Analysts said that the small -scale launch showed how long Tesla had to go to reach the opponents.
In addition to the Amazon’s Zoox, Waymo, owned by the Google Parental Alphabet, offers self -driven taxi trips in Austin and San Francisco, California and Phoenix, Arizona.
He has made millions of miles on public roads in other countries, including China, UAE and Singapore, completely driverless cars, but whether they are more or less safe than people -oriented ones are still being investigated.
Tesla uses a different technology to its competitors based on in -car cameras, rather than radar and sensors used by existing market leaders.
It bets that its approach will be cheaper and therefore more attractive for consumers.
However, questions were asked about safety.
NHTSA, in accordance with the law, “stressed that it has not approved new technologies or vehicle systems in advance-rather, producers confirm that each vehicle meets the meticulous safety standards of NHTSA and the agency is investigating events involving potential security defects.”
