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# Tesla Accused of Shutting Off Autopilot Moments Before Impact
- URL: https://werd.io/tesla-accused-of-shutting-off-autopilot-moments-before-impact/
- Published: 2022-06-14T19:44:50.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-14T19:44:50.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“In the report, the NHTSA spotlights 16 separate crashes, each involving a Tesla vehicle plowing into stopped first responders and highway maintenance vehicles. In the crashes, it claims, records show that the self-driving feature had "aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact" — a finding that calls supposedly-exonerating crash reports, which Musk himself has a pension for circulating, into question.”

\[[Link](https://futurism.com/tesla-nhtsa-autopilot-report)\]