The US National Transportation Safety Commission (NTSB) is a letter addressed to the US Transportation Road Safety Bureau (NHTSA), calling for more strict regulations on autonomous driving technology.
Although the letter is not targeted at the actions of a specific automaker, NTSB mentions 16 times in Tesla in 15 pages, and the level 2 autonomous driving technology is "Full Self-DRIVING (Full Sellf-DRIVING".It is called "FSD)" and pointed out that the beta test is being carried out on public roads using customers.Tesla's Eron Musk CEO acknowledged the regulatory authorities that it was an "advanced driving support system."
"Tesla explains that Tesla has recently had a complete automatic driving function," said Robert L. Samwalt, the National Transport and Safety Commission, about using these customers to develop their customers for unfinished functions.He has released a beta version of the level 2 autonomous driving system. Tesla has tested the highly automated automatic driving technology on public roads, but the government agency has a limited duty of monitoring and reporting. ""NHTSA's response to autonomous driving test monitoring will bring potential risks to car users and other road users."
And Mr. Samwalt asks for a function to add a function to install a collision avoidance system and a strong driver monitoring system to the automatic driver's vehicle, and add a function to prevent the driver from exceeding the safety use area of the autonomous driving system.I did it.Regarding Tesla, the vehicle operation capacity of Autopilot is particularly safe in a situation where the operation limit of the system, the prediction of the driver's erroneous use, and the intended ODD (operational design area: operating design area).Judgment to determine if there is a risk of sex. "
Depending on future decisions, Tesla may have to change the way of developing new features to customers.
In both cases, if the roles of the US government's traffic safety surveillance and NTSB and NHTSA are organized, NTSB first investigates accidents related to transportation and prevent future accidents through investigating the causes and measures to prevent future accidents.We will make recommendations to do.For example, a fatal accident that occurred in Mountain View, California during Autopilot, and the fundamental life -saving accident that occurred in Delley Beach, Florida in March 2019.We conducted a survey for this, and made a safety recommendation to the regulatory authorities and the automotive industry.
On the other hand, as a result of NTSB's survey, it is within the NTHSA's liability to order recalls, systems, parts, etc. that have been found that they are not safe to use.It is also NHTSA to determine the safety and design criteria and report requirements, including fuel efficiency standards.
Until now, NHTSA has been developed by automatic driving systems developed by existing manufacturers such as GM and Volvo, AMAZON ZOOX, Alphabet Waymo, and many other startups.In response, he has been reluctant to set regulations that inhibit technological innovation.As a result, driving permissions and regulations on public roads under development are determined by state government.
Tesla has a driving support system called Autopilot (AutoPilot) in the EV, and sells additional software options called FULL SELF-DRIVING (FSD, Complete Automatic) to customers for $ 10,000.Recently, customers who could not introduce it at the time of purchase are also starting to provide a subscription.
Musk CEO repeatedly advertise these functions through SNS.In February this year, Mr. Musk appeared in the podcast "Joe Rogan Experience" and said, "Autopilot is now well improved, so if you care about it, you will not need to drive."
However, in contrast to Mr. Musk's words, Tesla describes Autopilot and FSD as "Advanced Driving Support System" in the latest performance report, and "Level 2 operation of Level 2 in California's Automobile Management Bureau (DMV)."Support system" is described.
The day after NTSB's dissatisfaction with Tesla's FSD beta test became bright, Tesla's Elon Musk CEO was not paid attention to the surrounding situation among the beta test participants who recently increased to 2,000 people FSD.He said he had canceled the software access right.He has stated that there has not been a beta tester accident so far.However, it does not mention the details of how many people have canceled the access right or what criteria have decided to cancel, and to check the NTSB to strengthen regulations.It doesn't sound like the announced announcement.
Source: CNBC
