Transportation Security Administration investigated the second accident with Tesla electric car – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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the American authorities are investigating again a traffic accident with a car of the electric car manufacturer Tesla. A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration NHTSA told the news agency AFP on Wednesday at present would include information about an accident of a Tesla Model X SUV collated. Last week was the first time a fatal accident of a Tesla electric car with switched autopilot function style.

The Authority is in the process to gather information of the State Police Pennsylvania, the company Tesla and the driver of the crashed cars, said the spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration. This is about an accident which had taken place on 1 July, and the question of whether the autopilot was turned on for the time of the accident or not.

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A Tesla spokeswoman told AFP, currently is still unclear whether the autopilot was turned on. This might be connected with the fact that the antenna of the autopilot could have been damaged in the accident. The company had three times tried in vain to contact the driver of the car.

On Thursday of last week, Tesla had the fatal accident with another model, the Model S conceded. The accident occurred according to the company, as a truck at a right angle cross the road in front of the self-propelled car Tesla Model S. Perhaps the autopilot was not able to distinguish them from the brightly lit sky behind the white-painted side of the truck; the braking function, in any event not triggered.

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The SUV model X which is equipped with autopilot, only recently commercially. The autopilot system was introduced last year Tesla. It can automatically cars change lanes, change the speed and trigger the brake. The self-driving system can at any time be overruled by the driver. The driver would have even with autopilot journeys at any time hold hands on the handlebars and exercise responsibility for their journeys.

Tesla currently trying to evolve from a niche supplier of high-priced electric cars to a manufacturer for broader sections of the population. By 2018, the company wants to build 500,000 cars a year.