WASHINGTON — U.S. auto security regulators on Thursday requested Tesla to reply questions on its cabin digicam as a part of a probe into 830,000 Tesla automobiles that make use of the automaker’s superior driver help system referred to as Autopilot.
The Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration in June upgraded its probe opened in 2021 to evaluate the efficiency of Autopilot after earlier figuring out a dozen crashes by which Tesla automobiles struck stopped emergency automobiles.
NHTSA’s nine-page letter calls for Tesla reply questions by Oct. 12 about “the function that the Cabin Digicam performs within the enforcement of driver engagement/attentiveness.”
In response to Tesla, the cabin digicam can decide driver inattentiveness and supply audible alerts to remind the driving force to maintain their eyes on the street when Autopilot is engaged.