斯蒂芬·里弗斯

2023 年 7 月 6 日 20:00

美国国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）加大了对特斯拉 Autopilot 系统的调查力度。目前，该公司要求该汽车制造商在 7 月 19 日之前提供更新的回应和更多信息。此次调查是在特斯拉汽车发生一系列事故之后进行的，这些事故引起了人们对 Autopilot 安全性和有效性的担忧。

众所周知，特斯拉对自己正在进行的业务保持沉默。显然，这也延伸到它向 NHTSA 等政府组织提供的信息。在 7 月 3 日的一封信中，NHTSA 要求特斯拉告知其 Autopilot 最近的所有变化，并且没有太多解释空间。

具体来说，文本的一部分指出了“从生产开始至今，主题系统的设计、材料成分、制造、质量控制、供应、功能或安装”方面的变化。

这似乎涵盖了特斯拉可能对自动驾驶仪做出的任何调整，包括安装或拆卸硬件或软件调整以处理不同的情况。据美国广播公司新闻报道，缺陷调查办公室代理主任塔尼娅·托普卡（Tanya Topka）给特斯拉给出了 7 月 19 日回应的最后期限。

如果不及时回复，每天将面临最高 26,315 美元的民事罚款，最高可达 1.316 亿美元。NHTSA 表示，正在进行的调查于 2021 年 8 月开始，“旨在探讨 Autopilot 和相关特斯拉系统可能会在多大程度上破坏驾驶员监管的有效性，从而加剧人为因素或行为安全风险”。

多年来，围绕自动驾驶仪和全自动驾驶安全性的问题一直在行业内流传。根据特斯拉的内部数据，自动驾驶仪发生的事故远低于普通人。与此同时，有许多报道称配备自动驾驶仪或全自动驾驶功能的特斯拉汽车撞上了停放的紧急车辆。

U.S. Regulators Probing Autopilot Demand Updated Responses Soon From Tesla

The NHTSA is turning up the heat on Tesla in an effort to get a deeper understanding of the automaker's internal knowledge of Autopilot

by Stephen Rivers

July 6, 2023 at 20:00

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has intensified its investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system. It is now demanding updated responses and additional information from the automaker no later than July 19. The probe follows a series of accidents involving Tesla vehicles that raise concerns about the safety and effectiveness of Autopilot.

Tesla is somewhat famously quiet about its own ongoing business. Evidently, that extends to the information it provides to government organizations like the NHTSA. In a letter dated July 3, the NHTSA demands that Tesla tell it about all recent changes to Autopilot and it’s not leaving much to interpretation.

Specifically, a part of the text calls out changes in terms of “design, material composition, manufacture, quality control, supply, function, or installation of the subject system, from the start of production to date.”

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That seems to cover just about any adjustment that Tesla might make to Autopilot including installation or removal of hardware or software adjustments to handle different situations. Tanya Topka, acting director of the Office of Defects Investigation, gave Tesla a deadline of July 19 to respond according to ABC News.

If it doesn’t respond it faces civil penalties of up to $26,315 each day that it’s late or up to a maximum of $131.6 million. The ongoing probe started back in August of 2021 and “aims to explore the degree to which Autopilot and associated Tesla systems may exacerbate human factors or behavioral safety risks by undermining the effectiveness of the driver’s supervision,” says the NHTSA.

Questions surrounding the safety of both Autopilot and Full Self-Driving have swirled around in the industry for years. According to internal data at Tesla, Autopilot crashes far less than the average human being. At the same time, there’s a number of reports involving Teslas equipped with Autopilot or Full Self-Driving that have crashed into parked emergency vehicles.

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