WASHINGTON (Reuters)-United States Road Safety Regulators are analyzing Tesla’s answers to the agency’s questions about the safety of their rollers in adverse climatic conditions, the agency said on Friday, before plans to implement vehicles this weekend.
Tesla has sent invitations to a small group of people to participate in a limited test in Austin, Texas, which is provisionally scheduled to start on Sunday, according to publications and email screen captures on social networks, Reuters reported earlier on Friday.
In a letter sent last month, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requested Tesla to answer, until June 19, detailed questions about his plans to launch a paid-robot service in Austin. The goal is to evaluate the performance of the automaker’s vehicles with fully autonomous driving technology in adverse weather conditions.
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Since October, NHTSA has been investigating fully autonomous vehicle collisions of Tesla on the road under low visibility conditions. The investigation covers 2.4 million Tesla vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving Technology (FSD) after four reported collisions, including a fatal accident in 2023.
The agency reported in May that it sought additional information on the development of Tesla’s robot taxis, “to evaluate Tesla’s system capacity to properly react to low road visibility conditions”, as well as details on the launch plans and the technology used.
NHTSA also said in May that it wants to know how many vehicles will be used as rolling taxis and the scheduled schedule to make this technology available in vehicles controlled by others other than Tesla itself.
