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Tesla CEO Elon Musk s public statements about the state of his automaker s Autopilot assistive driving technology overestimate the system s capabilities, according to documents released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Legal non-profit PlainSite obtained the DMV documents via the California Public Records Act and they include a summary, written by Miguel Acosta, chief of the DMV s Autonomous Vehicles Branch, of a March 9, 2021 meeting between DMV officials and Tesla personnel.
Acosta wrote that DMV asked CJ [CJ Moore, director of Autopilot software at Tesla] to address, from an engineering perspective, Elon’s messaging about L5 capability by the end of the year.
U.S. safety board to release report on Texas Tesla crash within a month
Reuters | Apr 28, 2021 11:24 PM EDT
The remains of a Tesla vehicle are seen after it crashed in The Woodlands, Texas, April 17, 2021, in this still image from video obtained via social media. (Photo : SCOTT J. ENGLE via REUTERS)
The U.S. transport safety board is working to publish as soon as possible a preliminary report on a recent Tesla vehicle crash in Texas in which local police said no one was in the driver s seat, a senior official told Reuters, acknowledging public confusion over the fatal accident. A preliminary report typically comes out in a month, but we are working hard to get it out as soon as possible because we recognize there is this confusion out there, Kristin Poland, Deputy Director of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said in an interview with Reuters.
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When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways.
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U.S. Safety Board To Release Report On Texas Tesla Crash Within a Month By Hyunjoo Jin and David Shepardson | April 29, 2021
The U.S. transport safety board is working to publish as soon as possible a preliminary report on a recent Tesla vehicle crash in Texas in which local police said no one was in the driver’s seat, a senior official told Reuters, acknowledging public confusion over the fatal accident.
“A preliminary report typically comes out in a month, but we are working hard to get it out as soon as possible because we recognize there is this confusion out there,” Kristin Poland, Deputy Director of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said in an interview with Reuters.
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