LA Times: If 'self-driving' Teslas are defective, why are regulators letting them stay on the road?

[Caribbeans]

The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration continues to investigate the tendency of Tesla cars equipped with automated driving software to crash into emergency vehicles, such as in the scene above where a Tesla rear-ended a police car that then rammed into an ambulance in Cochise County, Ariz., in 2020. (Arizona Department of Public Safety)

If 'self-driving' Teslas are defective, why are regulators letting them stay on the road?

LA TIMES | RUSS MITCHELL | FEB. 17, 2023

On Thursday, Teslas equipped with Full Self-Driving software were deemed defective enough to warrant a recall because they’re prone to crashing. On Friday, all of those defective cars remained on the road, with the unreliable software still available to drivers, and no firm deadline on when it will get fixed.

The Tesla recall raises important and thorny questions not only about Tesla, but also about auto safety regulation in the United States.

For starters, why is the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration allowing drivers to continue to use experimental and dangerous software while Tesla tries to repair it? It’s unclear when the software will be fixed. NHTSA has imposed no deadline, and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has a record of making grand promises he doesn’t keep...

...FSD is an option that Tesla sells for $15,000. In its current state, the technology is deemed by Tesla to be “beta” software, a term computer users might recognize as a warning label on a newly issued, not-ready-for-prime-time software program whose code might still be pocked with bugs. (Important to note: so-called Full Self Driving Teslas are incapable of fully driving themselves.)...more
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-17/self-driving-teslas-defective-regulators-let-them-stay-on-road
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RELATED:

Why do Tesla cars keep crashing into emergency response vehicles?
Federal safety agency is investigating
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-08-16/us-agency-opens-investigation-tesla-autopilot-system

The top federal traffic safety regulator says Tesla’s partially automated driving system, Autopilot, failed to spot parked police cars and fire trucks. It wants to know why.

One year ago: Tesla autopilot system linked to crashes with emergency vehicles: NTSB

How has a car company been allowed by NHTSA and/or NTSB to put into the public a BETA "Self-Driving" software that has NOT been tested by independent experts that endangers literally everyone on the public roads? This is Thalidomide level failure by those tasked to protect the public. Do the employees own TSLA stock? And if so, how is THAT allowed? Multiple failures here.

(x-post to GD- extremely important info for every driver on the roads today)

[2naSalit]

1. They should be taken off the road...

And owners compensated.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[republianmushroom]

3. A very good question.

If 'self-driving' Teslas are defective, why are regulators letting them stay on the road?

Bet there is no answer for sometime to come.