Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved
Reuters found Tesla used internally collected safety data that was not independently verified and claimed FSD was more than seven times safer than average U.S. driving.
- A Reuters investigation found Tesla used potentially misleading internal safety data to secure Full Self-Driving approval from regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands, raising questions about the system's claimed safety record.
- Facing competition from Chinese electric vehicle makers, Tesla relies on FSD as a key business strategy to maintain its dominant position in European sales charts.
- Researchers found Tesla's presentation to Swedish regulators claimed FSD could have saved 32,000 lives and prevented 1.9 million injuries by comparing the system to the entire U.S. vehicle fleet, including trucks and motorcycles.
- European Transport Safety Council spokesperson Dudley Curtis stated he is "certainly concerned" about the "unreliable safety data," urging Tesla to "give the data to a university" for independent verification.
- The system faces a critical review by European Union member states in the coming months that would enable broader approval across the region, though current authorization remains limited to individual country approvals.
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Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved
As if things couldn’t get any worse for Tesla in Europe, traffic safety researchers now say they’ve caught the company cooking numbers they gave to regulators in order to get its “Full Self-Driving” system approved. The discrepancy was spotted by Reuters, which claims that data Tesla gave to authorities in Sweden and the Netherlands grossly exaggerated the safety record of FSD in the United States. Reuters reports that in a presentation meant fo…
Did Tesla overstate safety? Report raises questions over safety claims in EU filings
An investigation alleges Tesla may have misled regulators about its autonomous system’s safety claims, using flawed comparisons with human driving data in approval processes in Sweden and the Netherlands
Lawmakers made the request after a Reuters investigation, published last month, concluded that the electric vehicle manufacturer exaggerated its safety claims.
After Damning Report, Dutch Authority Defends FSD Certification, but the Cat's out of the Bag Now
A recent report claimed that Tesla presented misleading FSD safety data to European regulators, a claim that the Dutch authorities strongly rejected. However, the theme was picked up by US senators, who want the NHTSA to investigate Tesla's FSD safety claims. How things will end up for Tesla is still up for debate, with all sides presenting compelling points to support their positions. Earlier this week, a Reuters report cast a long ... (continu…
Tesla’s FSD Safety Claims Face Fresh Doubt in Europe
Tesla has spent years telling the world its Full Self-Driving software makes roads safer. In Europe, the company took that message straight to regulators. The pitch didn’t land as planned. Documents obtained through public records show Tesla presented self-published statistics to officials in the Netherlands and Sweden. Those numbers suggested vehicles running FSD could travel more than seven times farther between crashes than the average U.S. d…
For a few years now, Tesla has been talking about her, not just for her electric cars. And because of this, we also know that the American manufacturer strongly believes in another technology. It's about autonomous driving. Thus, it has been offering since the launch of its Model S l的Autopilot. For memory, this technology is actually a level 2 drive, which is now being deployed throughout the whole range. But the Texas-based firm does not want t…
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