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Federal safety tec have send Tesla a detailed lean of interrogative on its coming robotaxi serve as part of aninvestigationinto how the company ’s “ Full Self - Driving ( Supervised ) ” software operates in low-down - visibility conditions .
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ’s Office of Defects Investigation require the additional data about Full Self - Driving ( Supervised ) — or “ FSD ” — so as to “ understand how Tesla design to evaluate its vehicles and driving automation technologies for use on public roads,”according to the letterpublished Monday and firstreported by Reuters .
Tesla has n’t been tranquil about plan to launch a paid ride - come robotaxi serving in Austin , Texas , using its own fleet vehicles this come June . But it appears that Tesla ’s April 23 post on X captured the attending of Union regulators .
Thatpost , which is cited in the letter , read:“FSD Supervised drive - hailing serve is live for an other set of employee in Austin & San Francisco Bay Area . We ’ve completed over 1.5k trips & 15k geographical mile of driving . This service aid us acquire & formalize FSD networks , the mobile app , fomite allocation , mission dominance & remote assist operation . ”
NHTSA open its investigation into Tesla ’s “ Full ego - Driving ( Supervised ) ” software in October after four report clangoring in down - visibility state of affairs . Tesla ’s FSD software is an advanced driver - assistance organisation that requires the driver to keep their hands on the steering wheel even as it handles some of the driving operations like braking and steering in certain environments and conditions .
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has say the robotaxis will use the yet - to - be - released “ unsupervised ” version of its Full ego - Driving software .
In its May missive , the agency sent Tesla a series of questions squarely shoot for at determining whether the automatise driving organisation in its project robotaxis is the same — or similar — to FSD Supervised . The office necessitate for specifics on the fleet size of it and which fomite models will be used in the robotaxi religious service , how Tesla contrive to check whether its robotaxi organisation is safe and if the automated drive system has any relationship to its FSD Supervised product .
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The investigators also take Tesla to describe how it “ intend to ensure the safety of its robotaxi operations in thin roadway visibility weather condition , such as sun glare , fog , airborne dust , rainfall , or Baron Snow of Leicester . ”
