The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into more than 2.8 million Tesla vehicles with the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. As reported earlier by Reuters, the investigation will probe the traffic violations that occur with FSD, including driving through red lights and traveling the wrong way down the street.
NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation is looking into 58 traffic safety incidents involving FSD, including 14 crashes and 23 injuries. In some cases, a Tesla vehicle failed to stop, or didn’t remain stopped, at a red light with FSD engaged, while others involve Teslas with FSD entering the opposite lane of traffic during or following a turn, or attempting to “turn onto a road in the wrong direction despite the presence of wrongway roa