Tesla Accused of Shutting Off Autopilot Moments Before Impact

Ben Werdmuller

14 Jun 2022

“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.”

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