Tesla is finally going to release everything we want to know about Autopilot/FSD as NHTSA forces it

Tesla is lastly going to launch every part we at all times needed to learn about Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD), however it’s as a result of NHTSA is forcing the automaker to do it.

Final month, NHTSA introduced that it was opening a new investigation into Autopilot/FSD after not being happy with the recall that got here out of its earlier investigation closed final 12 months.

The company mentioned that a number of extra crashes had been reported because the recall and is now questioning the “treatment,” which was a rise in alerts drivers get when utilizing Autopilot.

Now, NHTSA says that “post-remedy crash occasions and outcomes from preliminary NHTSA assessments of remedied automobiles” is pushing them to revisit the state of affairs.

At present, the company launched a brand new letter it despatched to Tesla during which it requests in depth details about Autopilot/FSD. NHTSA is mainly asking for all information and doc that Tesla has associated to those programs.

Tesla has notoriously been going out of its means to not launch a lot information about Autopilot and its Full Self-Driving program. The automaker used a loophole to get across the CA DMV’s self-driving testing program information reporting.

Now, it’s lastly going to must launch every part as NHTSA warns that Tesla can withstand $135 million in fines if it doesn’t comply.

Right here’s the complete request from NHTSA:

Electrek’s Take

For years, I’ve been saying that Tesla’s reluctance to launch any information on Autopilot/FSD being the very restricted “security report”, which Tesla itself stopped reporting greater than a 12 months in the past, is an actual pink flag.

Most different firms engaged on self-driving applications have constantly launched disengagement and driver intervention information to be able to monitor progress, however Tesla has at all times resisted that.

Now, we’re lastly going to get precise information and never simply anecdotal experiences and it solely took a regulator to become involved and a menace of a $135 million nice.

If we knew that it was all we wanted.

Hopefully, as soon as the federal government has it, we can get our fingers on it, or at the least a redacted model of it, by requests of data.