Apple Inc also faulted for refusing to disable devices when users are driving. FMTNews
WASHINGTON: The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday sharply criticised Tesla Inc’s lack of system safeguards in a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California and called US regulators’ approach in overseeing the driver assistance systems “misguided”.
The board faulted Apple Inc and other smartphone makers for refusing to disable devices when users are driving. It also called on the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration to use its authority to take action against “employers who fail to address the hazards of distracted driving”. “It’s time to stop enabling drivers in any partially automated vehicle to pretend that they have driverless cars. Because they don’t have driverless cars,” NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said.
The NTSB said Huang had been using an iPhone and recovered logs showed a word-building game was active. NHTSA said it will carefully review the NTSB’s recommendations. The agency added that commercial motor vehicles “require the human driver to be in control at all times”. The NTSB said Tesla added safeguards to require quicker warnings at higher speeds for drivers without hands on the wheel.
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