The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

  • @[email protected]
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    8018 hours ago

    Tesla, which has repeatedly said the system cannot drive itself and human drivers must be ready to intervene at all times.

    how is it legal to label this “full self driving” ?

    • kiku
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      810 hours ago

      If customers can’t assume that boneless wings don’t have bones in them, then they shouldn’t assume that Full Self Driving can self-drive the car.

      The courts made it clear that words don’t matter, and that the company can’t be liable for you assuming that words have meaning.

    • @[email protected]
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      1416 hours ago

      It drives your full self, it doesn’t break you into components and ship those seperately.

    • @[email protected]
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      1518 hours ago

      That’s pretty clearly just a disclaimer meant to shield them from legal repercussions. They know people aren’t going to do that.

      • @[email protected]
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        817 hours ago

        Last time I checked that disclaimer was there because officially Teslas are SAE level 2, which let’s them evade regulations that higher SAE levels have, and in practice Tesla FSD beta is SAE level 4.

      • @[email protected]
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        714 hours ago

        legal or not it’s absolutely bonkers. Safety should be the legal assumption for marketing terms like this, not an optional extra.