The top U.S. transportation official says Tesla shouldn't call its partially automated driving system Autopilot because the cars can't drive themselves.
WASHINGTON — Tesla shouldn't be calling its partially automated driving system Autopilot because the carsTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he's concerned about Tesla's marketing of the system, which isthat have caused at least 14 deaths.
The probes are part of a larger investigation by the safety administration into multiple instances of Teslas using Autopilot crashing into parked emergency vehicles that are tending to other crashes. The safety administration has become more aggressive in pursuing safety problems with Teslas in the past year, announcing multiple recalls and investigations.
In the Wednesday interview, Buttigieg said that self-driving vehicles have enormous potential to reduce the nearly 40,000 U.S. roadway deaths that happen each year, a level that he called unacceptable. But he said the technology has not been proved yet. "It's far from automatic that it's going to meet that potential," he said. "That's what we're trying to shape here at the Department of Transportation.
The safety administration also has opened investigations during the past three years into Teslas braking suddenly for no reason, suspension problems and other issues. "The bottom line is the automotive sector is going electric, and we want that to happen quickly enough to help us meet our climate goals,'' he said. "We want it to happen on American soil so that we get these American jobs and we want it to happen in an equitable way that everybody can benefit from.''
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