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Subject: Washington – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is giving Tesla until Aug
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Washington – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is giving Tesla until Aug. 26 to fully answer questions about the fatal crash of one of its 2015 Model S cars that was operating with its automated driving system activated
The agency said it is examining the performance of the automatic emergency braking system used by Tesla that is designed to prevent collisions such as the one that killed Joshua Brown of Ohio in a crash in Florida on May 7
Federal regulators say preliminary reports show the Tesla crash happened when a semi-trailer rig turned left in front of the car that was in Autopilot mode at a highway intersection. Florida police said the roof of the car struck the underside of the trailer and the car passed beneath. The driver was dead at the scene
“Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor-trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied,” Tesla said in a blog posting June 30
NHTSA said in its letter to Tesla, dated July 8, that it is looking for information on all systems designed to provide automatic emergency braking that’s intended to prevent front-end crashes
In a statement provided to The Detroit News, the agency said, “NHTSA has not made any determination about the presence or absence of a defect in the subject vehicles.”
The agency is requiring Tesla to respond to 10 questions about the deadly crash. NHTSA has set a deadline of July 29 for Tesla to respond to its highest priority questions about the fatal Florida crash. The company will be given until Aug. 26 for Tesla to comply with the remainder of the queries
Tesla faces penalties up to $21,000 per day, with a maximum of $105 million, if it fails to meet NHTSA’s deadlines for responding to the questions about the autopilot crash
The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during an interview the company has no plans to disable the company’s Autopilot function in the wake of the May crash
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Detroit News about the highway safety agency’s information request
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