According to Reuters, on January 7, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it had launched an investigation of 2.6 million Tesla vehicles because some reports said that these vehicles were using the function of allowing users to remotely mobile cars to remotely mobile cars. The accident occurred.
In September last year, Tesla officially released the function of “Actually Smart Summon”, allowing owners to summon the vehicle from the parking space to a specific location nearby. The best example of its ideal use is to pick up users at the door of the grocery store, rather than the user who dragged a car grocery to find a vehicle in the parking lot.
NHTSA said that after receiving the four collision reports from Tesla’s vehicles, they were preliminary evaluation of Tesla’s “Advanced Smart Summon” function. According to NHTSA, these vehicles failed to detect other parking vehicles when they run the “Advanced Smart Summon” function, and also reported that users “have short response time and cannot avoid collision.”
NHTSA said that the survey covers 2016-2025 Model S and X models, 2017-2025 Model 3 and 2020-2025 Model Y models equipped with fully autonomous auxiliary systems. Speed, use on public roads, and vision requirements. In addition, the scope of this survey also includes the function of remote control through mobile applications, the impact of connection delay, and the performance of the system under accidents.
After the preliminary evaluation, NHTSA will decide whether to upgrade the survey to an engineering analysis, and then it may be required to recall. In this report, Tesla did not respond to the comments request. On the same day, the company’s stock price fell 4%in the noon trading.
In December 2023, because NHTSA found that the Tesla’s driving auxiliary system Autopilot did not do enough to take over the vehicle at any time, Tesla recalled more than 2 million cars in the United States. However, NHTSA is still investigating whether the recall is sufficient to solve the hidden dangers of the driver’s no concentration.
In October last year, NHTSA also investigated Tesla cars equipped with fully autonomous driving (FSD) software, saying that there have been four accident reports, including a fatal accident in 2023.