The first places in accidents concerning advanced driver assistance systems owned by Elon Musk Automotive, TESLA. Specifically, almost 70% of those reported accidents recorded since last July.
According to the Athens News Agency, Tesla Inc reported 273 conflicts vehicles from on July, involving the use of driving assistance systems. This is greater number of events from any other car industry, according to the data published by the competent supervisory authorities.
Vehicle manufacturers and technology companies have reported more than 500 incidents since June 2021, when the U.S. Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued an order requesting details of the incident. Two senators called for one deeper research for the ‘autonomous driving industryAnd a road safety committee ruled that the data had not been standardized, so it was difficult to assess the actual performance of each manufacturer’s system.
Car companies are in a hurry to integrate aids for drivers systems control of vehicles, arguing that these systems improve safety by handling some driving maneuvers. For their part, the relevant services try to understand the practical result of the attempted changes.
However, the manufacturers collect data in different waysmaking it difficult for them to evaluate the performance of their systems by the competent supervisory authorities.
THE Democratic senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal informed the NHTSA in a letter that the data alone was not enough. “We urge the NHTSA to shed light on this out-of-control industry and imposes protective measures “to prevent more deadly clashes,” the letter said.
The report contains “a series of data with many limitations that make it difficult” to understand the data, said Jennifer Hometi, chairwoman of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in a statement. “Tesla is collecting a large amount of high-quality data, which may mean that it is being misrepresented in the NHTSA report,” she said.
Tesla’s state-of-the-art driving assistance software promoted as a fully autonomous driving system «Full Self Driving“, Also causes, confusion on the capabilities of vehicles.
The senators worried about him large number of events and with the involvement of Tesla vehicles. “We are concerned that some drivers today are using technology as a convenience, endangering themselves and others on the road,” Senators Markey and Blumenthal wrote in their letter.
NHTSA required companies to report immediately all incidents, including technologically advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), as well as equipping vehicles with automated driver systems that will be tested on the public road network.
From the 392 events reported by twelve vehicle manufacturers since July, have been recorded six deaths, but also five cases of serious injuries. Honda Motor recorded 90 incidents.
The manufacturers reported 130 events with the involvement of original systems autonomous drivingwhile in 108 of them, no injuries were recorded, with a serious injury being recorded in only one incident.
Honda Motor recorded 90 incidents, while Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo autonomous driving division reported 62 incidents, involving automated driving systems. General Motors Cruise recorded 23 incidents.
Waymo announced that the incidents it recorded did not pose a high risk to the safety of drivers, while 1/3 of them took place under conventional driving conditions. Vehicle airbags were developed in only two cases.
Source: News Beast
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