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NHTSA says it has identified 12 crashes since 2018 in which Teslas on Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control have hit vehicles at scenes where first responders have used flashing lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board or cones warning of hazards.Д¬opyright 2021 The Associated Press. Of the crashes identified as part of the probe, 17 people were injured and one was killed. The investigation covers 765,000 vehicles, almost everything that Tesla has sold in the U.S.

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In August, it opened a formal investigation into the system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles. NHTSA has stepped up its investigations into Tesla Autopilot. He didnвЂ™t answer reportersвЂ™ questions posed on Twitter. On Twitter in April, Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote that data logs вЂњrecovered so farвЂќ in the crashed show Autopilot wasnвЂ™t turned on, and вЂњFull Self-DrivingвЂќ was not purchased for the vehicle in the Texas crash.

Lars Moravy, TeslaвЂ™s vice president of vehicle engineering, said on the companyвЂ™s April 26 earnings conference call that an inspection of the badly burned car found that the steering wheel was deformed, вЂњso it was leading to a likelihood that someone was in the driverвЂ™s seat at the time of the crash.вЂќ He said all seat belts were found unbuckled.

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The company says in ownerвЂ™s manuals and on its website that Autopilot is a driver-assist system and drivers must be ready to take action at any time. The Texas crash raised questions of whether Autopilot was working at the time, and whether Tesla does enough to make sure drivers are engaged. The federal probe is running at the same time as a parallel investigation by local authorities, the NTSB said. NHTSA has the power to make vehicle safety regulations. The NTSB, which has no regulatory authority and can only make recommendations, said itвЂ™s working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the probe. Investigators could not get the systemвЂ™s automated steering system to work, but were able to use Traffic Aware Cruise Control.Д¬onsumer Reports said in April that it was able to easily trick a Tesla into driving in Autopilot mode with no one at the wheel. In a preliminary report from May, the NTSB said it tested a different Tesla vehicle on the same road, and the Autopilot driver-assist system could not be fully used. Both the 59-year-old owner and the 69-year-old passenger were killed. on Hammock Dunes Place, a two-lane residential road. The car traveled about 550 feet before leaving the road on a curve, going over a curb, hitting a drainage culvert, a raised manhole and a tree. The fatal trip began at the owner's home near the end of a cul-de-sac, and home security video showed the owner getting into the driver's seat and the passenger entering the front passenger seat, the report said.

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The update report left unclear how or why the driver unbuckled the seat belt and changed seating positions, although it said the crash damaged the Tesla Model S's high-voltage lithium-ion battery case, where the fire started. The agency will make those determinations in a final report. The NTSB said it is still looking into Autopilot, whether the men could have had trouble getting out of the car, driver toxicology tests and other items. The investigation is continuing, and the agency made no determination as to whether Tesla's Autopilot partially automated driver-assist system was running at the time of the crash. Data from the car's fire-damaged event data recorder revealed that at times, the accelerator pedal was pressed as high as 98.8%, the NTSB report said. The agency said the car was traveling up to 67 mph in the five seconds leading up to the crash, and the driver was accelerating.

National Transportation Safety Board announced the findings in an investigative report update released Thursday on the April 17 crash on a residential road in Spring, Texas.ДЄlthough first responders found one man in the back seat and the other in the front passenger seat, the NTSB said both the driver and a passenger were in the front seats with belts buckled at the time of the crash.

DETROIT вЂ“ A driver was behind the wheel when a Tesla electric car crashed and burned last April near Houston, killing two men, neither of whom was found in the driver's seat.

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