Tesla to remove 362,800 self-driving cars from the road due to risk of crashes

Tesla will remove more than 362,800 cars from the roads equipped with an advanced self-driving system, after a US government regulatory agency warned increased risk of accidents.

Technology “Full Serving-Driving assistance” developed by the company Elon Musk allows you to drive, accelerate, brake and change lanes without being operated by a driver, allows vehicles to travel beyond the legal speed limits and through intersections of “illegal or unpredictable way” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday in documents posted to its website.

Safety agency tests and analyzes have shown that a system component that drives the car on city streets could create “an unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety based on insufficient compliance with highway safety laws.”

The agency said Tesla was unaware of any deaths or injuries caused by the faults the agency had identified.

The safety agency said it was looking into just a number of concerns it has with fully autonomous driving and was continuing to investigate the less advanced system and technology that Tesla calls “Autopilot”.

Despite their names, neither system can drive cars completely on its own, and Tesla tells car owners to be prepared to take control of the car at any point while using the system. He also tells them to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road.

As reported by the New York Times, Tesla has accepted the recall and plans to fix the faults via an over the air update of the affected vehicles, which includes all four of the models it sells, according to a letter posted on the agency’s website.

The automaker intends to notify the owners of the recalled vehicles by mail no later than April 15.

The safety agency said Tesla did not agree with the regulators’ analysis, but that the company had agreed to a voluntary recall.Out of caution”.

The agency is investigating 41 crashes since 2016 involving Tesla vehicles using the company’s advanced driver assistance systems, including 14 that killed a total of 19 people.