Tesla does not hesitate to circumvent traffic safety rules

Elon Musk has repeatedly said that his cars will soon become fully self-driving.

AFP

Elon Musk has repeatedly said that his cars will soon become fully self-driving, but Tesla remains ambiguous about the true capabilities of its vehicles' advanced driver assistance systems, and does not hesitate to circumvent traffic safety rules.

And circulating online videos showing Tesla cars driving in a tight corner and suddenly passing other cars, which shows that the performance of these cars under the latest driver assistance system "FSD Beta" may be erratic.

The group, owned by Elon Musk, agreed to recall 54,000 cars equipped with the “FSD Beta” system for remote breakdown, an option that allows cars not to come to a complete stop at stop lights.

"It was not a simple engineering error, but a deliberate decision by (Tesla) to break traffic laws," says Phil Koopman, a specialist in the safety of self-driving vehicles.

And the American Traffic Safety Authority launched an investigation after recording collisions between Tesla cars equipped with the “automated guide” system and emergency vehicles.

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