The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation after finding that Tesla submitted crash reports involving driver-assistance and self-driving features months late instead of within the five-day requirement. The probe will examine why reporting delays occurred, whether submitted reports contained all required data and details, and whether additional unreported crashes exist. Tesla attributed the delays to a data collection issue that it says has been fixed. The investigation follows Tesla's launch of a self-driving taxi service in Austin and plans to deploy over-the-air updates enabling wider driverless operation. A separate NHTSA probe into low-visibility performance covers 2.4 million Teslas.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a filing on Thursday that Tesla's reports on "numerous" incidents involving its driver assistance and self-driving features were submitted far too late - several months after the crashes instead of within five days as required. The probe comes two months after the electric vehicle maker run by Elon Musk started a self-driving taxi service in Austin, Texas, with hopes of soon offering it nationwide.
The safety agency said the probe will focus on why Tesla took so long to report the crashes, whether the reports included all the necessary data and details and if there are crashes that the agency still doesn't know about. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment, but the agency noted that the company has told it the delays were "due to an issue with Tesla's data collection," which Tesla says has now been fixed.
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