Tesla under investigation, 11 car accidents hitting emergency vehicles across America

Tesla is under investigation by the Federal safety regulators which was a result of Tesla cars using Autopilot or other self-driving features that crashed into emergency vehicles when coming upon the scene of an earlier crash.

According to CNN, The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration said seven of these accidents resulted in 17 injuries and one death.

All of the Teslas in question had the self-driving Autopilot feature or the traffic-aware cruise control engaged as they approached the crashes, the NHTSA said.

Meanwhile, Tesla (TSLA) stock fell 5% in morning trading following news of the probe.

The accidents under investigation occurred between January 22, 2018, and July 10, 2021, across nine different states. They mostly occur at night, and the post-accident scenes all included control measures like first responder vehicle lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board and road cones.

More so,  Police in a Houston suburb said there was no one in the driver’s seat of a Tesla that crashed and killed two people in the car earlier this year, a charge that Tesla has denied.

Lars Moravy, Tesla’s vice president of vehicle engineering, confirmed in April in comments to investors that Tesla’s adaptive cruise control was engaged and accelerated to 30 mph before that car crashed.