Regulators want to know more about a configuration that eliminates a so-called 'nag' that normally prompts owners to keep their hands on the steering wheel.
In the letter and special order, the agency's acting chief counsel John Donaldson wrote:
Tesla was given a deadline of Aug. 25 to furbish all the information demanded by the agency, and replied on time but they requested and their response has been grantedAutomotive safety researcher andassociate professor of computer engineering Philip Koopman told CNBC after the order was made public, "It seems that NHTSA takes a dim view of cheat codes that permit disabling safety features such as driver monitoring. I agree.
Over the weekend, Musk livestreamed a test drive in a Tesla equipped with a still-in-development version of the company's FSD software on the social platform. During that demo, Musk streamed using a mobile device he held while driving and chatting with his passenger, Tesla's head of Autopilot software engineering Ashok Elluswamy.
His use of Tesla's systems would likely comprise a violation of the company's own terms of use for Autopilot, FSD and FSD Beta, according to Greg Lindsay, an Urban Tech fellow at Cornell. He told CNBC, the entire drive was like "waving a red flag in front of NHTSA.
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