Tesla is in the spotlight with two lawmakers pressing for a NHTSA safety probe
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Two members of Congress have formally asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for a briefing on the ongoing probes into crashes of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) vehicles involving AutoPilot and advanced driver assistance systems.
It is nothing new for the safety regulator. Over the last six years, the NHTSA has opened 38 special investigations of crashes involving Tesla vehicles in which advanced driver assistance systems such as Autopilot were believed to be in use. Earlier in the summer, the NHTSA upgraded its defect investigation into 830K Tesla vehicles with Autopilot involving crashes into parked emergency vehicles in a step that sometimes precedes a recall.
Tesla (TSLA) continues to push ahead with its full self-driving initiative. During the last earnings call, CEO Elon Musk noted that the company has deployed FSD beta with City Streets driving capability to over 100,000 owners. He said owners are very happy with the capability of the system and the company will continue to improve it every week. The FSD beta is now up to 35M miles driven, which Musk said may be more miles than all other competitors combined.
Shares of Tesla (TSLA) slipped 1.26% in mid-afternoon trading on Thursday.
Read the Tesla earnings call transcript.