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For self-driving cars, the free ride is over
The probes are flying fast and free.
In rapid succession, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened investigations into almost all the major companies testing autonomous vehicles as well as those that offer advanced driver-assist systems in their production cars. “I definitely think the wider rollouts — and the corresponding videos of bad behavior—have made a difference,” said Sam Anthony, former chief technology officer at Perceptive Automata and author of a newsletter about automated driving. Tesla issued a voluntary recall of Autopilot in the form of an over-the-air software update last year, in response to NHTSA’s investigation into dozens of crashes in which drivers were found to be misusing the system.
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