Dan’s comments were published on 26 February and can be read here.
Dan O’Dowd commented: “In one month of operation Tesla’s supervised “Robotaxi” had three crashes and injured somebody.
“Tesla is terrified of the public learning how defective its software is, so unlike the real robotaxi companies, Tesla is redacting the crash details in its reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.”
Dear Representative,
I am concerned by Tesla’s deployment of its experimental self-driving software on public roads. I note that data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that this technology has been implicated in over 1,000 crashes, dozens of which have been fatal. I urge you to act by calling for more stringent regulation of Tesla’s self-driving software. Tesla escapes the regulatory scrutiny we rightly place on other self-driving cars. I call on you to address this issue by demanding that Tesla is held to the same standards we demand of other self-driving vehicles.
Sincerely,