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Tesla Autopilot / Autosteer

nearly 1,000 crashes in which Autopilot was reported to be engaged
tech
tesla-autopilot
passes the definition as
vision and planning networks fit to fleet driving data
from
2023-12-12
region
US
domain
safety
side
loss
people
2,000,000 vehicles equipped with Autosteer (2023-12-13)
effect
1,000 crashes (2023-12-13) — crashes under NHTSA investigation in which Autopilot was reported to be engaged
reversible
yes
who holds the switch
owner:Tesla
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
NHTSA recall 23V-838 (12 December 2023) covered 2,031,220 Tesla vehicles because Autosteer's controls 'may be insufficient to prevent driver misuse'; the senators' statement of 13 December 2023 cites nearly 1,000 crashes in which Autopilot was reported engaged that NHTSA is investigating.
source
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/markey-blumenthal-statement-on-teslas-recall-of-2-million-vehicles-with-autopilot-system
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2020-2023
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2020-2023.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=utf-8)
  2. 2026-09-06T09:59:36-04:00 · sessionseverity — about a thousand crashes with the system engaged: injury
  3. 2026-09-06T10:00:50-04:00 · sessionseverity — injury; the count is the ~1,000 crashes with the system engaged (a crash ≈ at least one person), not the 2 million vehicles
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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