Tesla was forced to disclose another fatal collision involving its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to federal authorities. In this case, the crash also involved an emergency vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The accident occurred in February and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) asked the company for more information at the time of the crash. It is the 17th fatal collision that Tesla has reported since first being required to in June 2021, reports Bloomberg.
The crash is one of 66 reported as part of the latest public release of data surrounding accidents involving Level 2 autonomous driving systems released by NHTSA. The information is gathered from all automakers testing ADAS systems.
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After the first year of reporting, Tesla was far and away the automaker whose vehicles had been involved in the most accidents, with 273. The automaker that reported the second-most accidents was Honda, with its vehicles being involved in 90 collisions.
Federal regulators increased the scrutiny over Level 2 autonomous driving systems—which allow a vehicle to take over some driving tasks, but require the driver to be in control of the vehicle at all times—after several prominent accidents involving Teslas were reported. In particular, the accidents involving emergency vehicles were a cause of concern for regulators, making this latest incident relevant.
The accident in question appears to be one that occurred on February 18, when a Tesla Model S hit a parked fire truck on the I-680 in California. The driver was killed in the incident and one passenger was critically injured after the car hit a fire truck that had been parked strategically, in an effort to protect emergency crews. NHTSA dispatched a “special crash investigation team” to look into the accident at the time.