mo4ch:>Tesla’s autopilot system not safe & may even increase risk of crashes – investigative report | Mo4ch News
New research by Quality Control Systems Corporation (QCSC) has found that Tesla’s Autosteer may have made accidents more common instead of reducing crashes.According to the report, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which launched an investigation in 2016 following a fatal Tesla crash, has misinterpreted the data it was provided. Back then, the NHTSA determined that the system wasn’t just safe, but actually slashed crash rates by nearly 40 percent.Also on rt.comTesla bursts into flames after fatal crash in Switzerland (PHOTOS)“After obtaining the formerly secret, underlying data through a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act against the US Department of Transportation, we discovered that the actual mileage at the time the Autosteer system was installed appears to have been reported for fewer than half the vehicles NHTSA studied,” the QCSC report said.“For those vehicles that do have apparent exact measurements of exposure mileage both before a…