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The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 69 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

if he was truthful: "the cost of adding lidar cuts in my profits"

[–] III@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago

Correction - Older Teslas had lidar, Musk demanded they be removed because they cut into his profits. Not a huge difference but it does show how much of a shitbag he is.

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago

Honestly though, I'm a fucking idiot and even I can tell that Lidar might be needed for proper, safe FSD