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Tesla Autopilot (Autosteer + TACC)

ODI identified at least 13 crashes involving one or more fatalities and many more involving serious injuries
tech
tesla-autopilot
passes the definition as
a vision-based lane-keeping and object-detection stack whose perception networks are fit to fleet driving data
from
2018
region
US
domain
safety
side
loss
people
13 crashes involving one or more fatalities (2024-04-25)
effect
14 deaths (2024-04-25) — fatalities in crashes where foreseeable misuse of Autopilot played an apparent role; 54 injuries recorded across the same failure set
reversible
no
who holds the switch
owner:Tesla
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
NHTSA's EA22002, closed 25 April 2024, analysed 956 crashes reported up to 30 August 2023; 467 were attributed to Autopilot failure patterns, with at least 13 fatal crashes (14 fatalities, 54 injuries in the failure report summary).
source
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INCLA-EA22002-14498.pdf
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2012-2019
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2012-2019.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 application/pdf)
  2. 2026-09-06T09:59:36-04:00 · sessionseverity — 14 deaths
  3. 2026-09-06T10:00:50-04:00 · sessionseverity — 14 deaths; the count is the deaths
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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