After years of tragic motorway accidents and horrifying social media postings chronicling the software’s allegedly self-destructive conduct, the NHSTA initiated its inquiry into Tesla’s much-hyped Full Self-Driving system in August 2021. Originally, it was only an engineering investigation into why Teslas were pursuing parked firetrucks, but in June, the agency escalated that defect investigation, allowing it to seek a recall from Tesla over this problem, which is how we got here.
