The National Security Administration Highway Traffic safety administration (NHTSA, for its acronym in English) on Thursday released its conclusion about the death of a man who drove a Tesla for a road in Florida in 2016 with the autopilot function enabled.
The NHTSA concluded that the vehicle showed no defect in their design or in the performance related to the help system advanced the driver; that is to say, the autopilot function, nor that if the brake system failed, causing the accident. Consequently, the administration will close the investigation and not impose a withdrawn mandatory of these cars.
On its website, Tesla published the following comment: “At Tesla, the safety of our consumers is paramount and we appreciate the detailed report of the NHTSA and their conclusion”.
During the tragic accident, which took place on the 7th of may 2016, the driver of a Tesla Model S, Joshua Brown, collided with a cargo truck that was crossing an intersection, killing him.
the latest update to The autopilot system of the vehicle Tesla includes a function by which the cart is turned off and parked to the side of the road only if the driver does not answer the request of the car to take the wheel.
Teslathe research confirmed that The autopilot was turned on in the vehicle, suggesting that several functions were available to help the driver, as the automatic brakes. However, the auto-pilot of a Tesla Model S is categorized as a semi-autonomous, which means that the driver still needs to be attentive to the road.
In the case of Brown, the NHTSA concluded that neither the driver nor the vehicle applied the brakes, but that was not a fault of the Tesla.
To mitigate accidents like this in the future, in October, Tesla announced that the next update of the software of the vehicle would improve the driving semi-automatic.
Elon Musk, ceo of Tesla, noted in a tweet that the investigation includes a reference to the reduction of accidents after the most recent update:
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