Tesla’s sudden accelerations were user errors, says the U.S. government
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration declined to open a full investigation
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has finished a year-long review of claims that some Tesla vehicles accelerated without warning because it did not There is enough evidence to open a full investigation. While NHTSA received 246 complaints about this “sudden unintentional acceleration” phenomenon, the agency says that “incorrect pedaling” was the cause of the problem in each case where data was to be verified – user error, in other words.
” There is no evidence of defects in the accelerator pedal assemblies, engine control systems, or braking systems that contributed to any of the incidents, ”the agency wrote in a summary published on Friday. “There is no evidence of a theoretical factor that increases the likelihood of pedal misuse. The theory provided a possible electronic cause of SUA in the vehicles concerned based on inaccurate assumptions about the system design and the log data. “
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TESLA has been negotiated for years by sudden acceleration claims.
Claims for so-called “sudden unintended acceleration” have persecuted Tesla for years An alleged class action lawsuit in 2018 over the problem. According to NHTSA, crash data and videos were collected from black-box event recorders on cars and from Tesla itself. While 246 cases have been reported, the agency did not specify the number of cases for which the problem was believed to affect around 662,000 vehicles in Tesla’s lineup. The review was opened in January 2020 in response to a “default request” from Brian Sparks, an investor who was shorting Tesla shares (or betting the price would drop). They cornered more than 100 complaints about the problem that had already been presented to NHTSA, as well as similar events that had been covered in the press, and asked the agency to investigate.
“I think Tesla vehicles have a structural flaw that puts its drivers and the public at risk. Furthermore, I believe that Tesla should be aware of this failure and not respond to it, “he wrote in December 2019. Spark also disagreed with Tesla’s reluctance to provide data on these events of Acceleration to owners. “This request will show that, based on publicly available information, it appears that Tesla vehicles have a sudden unintended acceleration problem and Tesla should know about this problem.”
Tesla responded to the review with a blog post stating that the idea had no merit. “We investigated every I In the incident where the driver alleges to us that his vehicle sped against his input, and in all cases in those of us who had the vehicle data confirmed that the car worked as designed, “the company wrote.
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