Tesla Inc (TSLA)

[boston745]

US agency says Tesla's public statements imply that its vehicles can drive themselves. They can't.

The U.S. government's highway safety agency says Tesla is telling drivers in public statements that its vehicles can drive themselves, conflicting with owners manuals and briefings with the agency saying the electric vehicles need human supervision.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking the company to “revisit its communications” to make sure messages are consistent with user instructions.

Critics, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, have long accused Tesla of using deceptive names for its partially automated driving systems, including “Full Self-Driving” and “Autopilot,” both of which have been viewed by owners as fully autonomous.

The letter and email raise further questions about whether Full Self-Driving will be ready for use without human drivers on public roads, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has predicted. Much of Tesla's stock valuation hinges on the company deploying a fleet of autonomous robotaxis.

“Tesla's X account has reposted or endorsed postings that exhibit disengaged driver behavior,” Magno wrote. “We believe that Tesla's postings conflict with its stated messaging that the driver is to maintain continued control over the dynamic driving task."

In addition, Tesla says on its website that use of Full Self-Driving and Autopilot without human supervision depends on “achieving reliability" and regulatory approval, Magno wrote. But the statement is accompanied by a video of a man driving on local roads with his hands on his knees, with a statement that, “The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself,” the email said.

Auto safety advocates fear that if Musk gains some control over NHTSA, the Full Self-Driving and other investigations into Tesla could be derailed.

Musk even floated the idea of him helping to develop national safety standards for self-driving vehicles.

“Of course the fox wants to build the henhouse,” said Michael Brooks, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a nonprofit watchdog group.

He added that he can't think of anyone who would agree that a business mogul should have direct involvement in regulations that affect the mogul’s companies.

“That’s a huge problem for democracy, really,” Brooks said.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/teslas-public-statements-vehicles-can-drive-themselves-they-cant/3704474/

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The following collection of accidents are where Teslas behaved in very similar manner, leading to accidents regardless of it being operated by intoxicated drivers, regular drivers, professional drivers, Autopilot, or FSD. This is done to showcase the core problem is hardware related not driver/software. When nearly the same things occurs across a diverse collection of use cases regardless of model & year, the only logical conclusion is that there is something wrong with the vehicles themselves and that they pose a significant danger to society. In fact there is a newish investigation that indicated that Tesla & NHTSA are purposefully withholding information in regards various AP related accidents including these veering Teslas. I post to the article at the end of this section of the post.

This data focuses specifically on accidents where the Teslas may have suddenly accelerated and/or veered into objects (like trees). No amount of software updates can fix a hardware issue when its susceptible to electromagnetic interference; Teslas and other EVs are just "computers on wheels" and thus are susceptible to EMI. Im also noting the Model to showcase this issue impacts every model and year of Tesla. Only model missing atm is a roadster as very few were produced and are less likely to be driven.


FSD
1. 2022 - Model 3 Veers off road on FSD:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175324468
2. May 2023 - Model Y Veers off road on FSD:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175335110


Autopilot
1. Jun 2023 - Tesla Veers off road on Autopilot:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175336610
2. July 2023 - Model 3 accelerates and veers off road nearly colliding with a tree:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175338611
3. 2020 - Model 3 suddenly veers into the median:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175347830
4. Mar 2018 - Model X accelerates and veers into median:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175348827
5. May 2024 - Model Y veers off the highway into the vegetation:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175354140


Professional Driver
1. Aug 2024 - Tesla Semi suffers engine fire, veers off road into trees:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175337455
2. Sept 2024 - Tesla Veers off road operating as a Taxi:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175336370
3. Nov 2022 - Model Y suffers SUA with former truck driver at the wheel. Brakes/Ebrake non-responsive:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175337285


Regular Driver
1. Jun 2024- Cybertruck suffers SUA and locked steering "veering off the road":
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175336905
2. Feb 2019 - Model X suffers locked steering veering off the road:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175337114
3. Nov 2024 - Model S veers off the road into trees catching on fire killing 5 people:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175337730
4. May 2023 - Tesla steering locks and veers off road trying to drive into bay stopped by little tree:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175344216
5. Oct 2024 - Tesla veers off road into apartment complex:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175349553
6. Jul 2023 - Tesla accelerates and veers off the road into hydrant and tree burning occupants alive:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175355580
7. Jul 2023 - Model Y veers into oncoming lanes and off the road into trees killing driver:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175355668


Intoxicated Driver
1. Apr 2021 - Model S suffers SUA and veers off road into trees (one AP feature enabled):
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175336514
https://www.thedrive.com/news/40385/tesla-admits-one-autopilot-feature-was-engaged-during-deadly-texas-crash

Both FSD cases, 1 professional driver case, 3 regular driver cases, & 1 intoxicated driver case, the Teslas slammed into a tree resulting in the death of at least 1 person. 1 autopilot case the Tesla veered off the road and rolled into a tree. 2 Autopilot cases suddenly veered into the median. 2 regular driver incidents involved locked steering. It appears as though the Semi suffered some sort of electrical issue causing an engine to catch fire and it veer off the interstate into trees. The Cybertruck incident also involved locked steering but included sudden unintended acceleration.

New Investigation Suggests Tesla And NHTSA Withheld Info Surrounding Autopilot Crashes

Details of over 200 Autopilot-related accidents were complied, with new patterns being discovered.
The report states that in the accidents, Tesla’s Autopilot struggled with obstacle avoidance, and cars also veered off the road.

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Here is a collection of my research going over multiple subjects including Tesla AI/Neural Net for AB missile systems, SpaceX satellites = grid of satellites for Brilliant Pebbles, September 11ths SpaceX connection, & Musk = DoD stooge.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175270333

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Section 3 - How EMI causes SUA in EVs and how the wrong data is sent to Teslas recorder falsely blaming the driver for the sudden acceleration

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175277001