Consumer Reports wants U.S. safety regulators to provide more information to the public on crash investigations involving Tesla’s Autopilot system and greater scrutiny of safety claims
." The documents and subpoena posted by PlainSite, are “business as usual and reflect an open and collaborative relationship between Tesla and NHTSA," the company said.
The newly released documents also show NHTSA asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into whether Tesla’s crash safety claims about Model 3 were “unfair or deceptive acts.” The Silicon Valley carmaker touted Model 3’s crash-test performance in an Oct. 7, claiming the car achieved “the lowest probability of injury of any vehicle ever tested by NHTSA.
Yet NHTSA warned it’s “impossible to say based on frontal crash results or Overall Vehicle Scores whether the Model 3 is safer than other 5-Star rated vehicles.” In an October 31 response, Tesla Deputy General Counsel Al Prescott said “we disagree with the agency’s position,” that statements in the blog were “neither untrue nor misleading,” according to the PlainSite documents.
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