Twist: NHTSA Tesla Autopilot Probe Now Includes Other Automakers

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been doing a deep dive into Tesla’s Autopilot to determine if 765,000 vehicles from the 2014 model year onward are fit to be on the road. We’ve covered it on numerous occasions, with your author often making a plea for regulators not to harp on one company when the entire industry has been slinging advanced driving aids and distracting infotainment displays for years.

Apparently someone at the NHTSA either heard the blathering, or was at least of a similar mind, because the organization has expanded its investigation to include roughly a dozen other automakers.

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  • Cprescott I have watched a series of teardown videos by Munro and Associates (sycophants to Tesla) and cannot believe the hoodwinking that was done with this POS. There was no way it was ever going to sell the golf cart with a bed for the price they said. I cannot believe all of the space those motors take up - so huge and expensive. And the battery pack is the size of Rhode Island!
  • Rick T. That's the way the (Milano) cookie crumbles.
  • ChristianWimmer My requirements are simple: I love driving fast (Autobahn) and I want a relatively generous and stable range while using creature comforts. No EV on the market can satisfy this requirement, hence I am not interested in one.
  • Cprescott Jeep has become fool's gold - thinking they can move this brand upmarket and charge outrageous prices without regard to keeping track of market conditions.
  • Chiefmonkey Did these have the same security/theft problem that other Kias have? lol