The federal government is expanding its probe into more than a dozen accidents in which Tesla vehicles using Autopilot collided with emergency vehicles. The investigation has now been renamed “Engineering Analysis,” which is the second and final stage of an investigation before a possible recall.
This phase will include additional tests and crash analyses “to investigate the extent to which Autopilot and associated Tesla systems may exacerbate human factors or behavioral safety risks by undermining the effectiveness of the driver’s supervision,” according to documents posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) website on Thursday.
