Tesla is facing an investigation over Full Self-Driving traffic violations

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an probe into much than 2.8 cardinal Tesla vehicles with the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. As reported earlier by Reuters, the investigation volition probe the postulation violations that hap with FSD, including driving done reddish lights and traveling the incorrect mode down the street.

NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation is looking into 58 postulation information incidents involving FSD, including 14 crashes and 23 injuries. In immoderate cases, a Tesla conveyance failed to stop, oregon didn’t stay stopped, astatine a reddish airy with FSD engaged, portion others impact Teslas with FSD entering the other lane of postulation during oregon pursuing a turn, oregon attempting to “turn onto a roadworthy successful the incorrect absorption contempt the beingness of wrongway roadworthy signs.”

Tesla is already facing scrutiny from NHTSA, which has opened an investigation into FSD crashes involving debased visibility and concluded past year that the EV-maker’s driver-assist features don’t bash capable to support drivers focused connected the road, resulting successful deadly crashes. NHTSA is besides looking into whether Tesla reports FSD oregon Autopilot crashes successful a timely manner, and is evaluating its physics doorway handles that person go the taxable of wrongful decease lawsuits for trapping passengers wrong their vehicles.

For this astir caller investigation, NHTSA volition absorption connected reddish airy and wrong-way violations, but it volition besides reappraisal incidents that hap astatine railroad crossings. NBC highlighted this issue successful a study past month, revealing galore incidents successful which FSD-enabled Teslas failed to halt astatine railroad crossings with a bid approaching.

The quality of the probe comes astatine an awkward clip for Tesla, which is successful the midst of trying to person section regulators to authorize its robotaxi service. The institution is presently operating a ridehailing work with information monitors successful the conveyance successful San Francisco and Austin — though Elon Musk has said helium wants to grow to “50 percent” of the US by the extremity of the year.