The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into roughly 2.6M Tesla (TSLA) vehicles in the U.S. citing the company’s “Actually Smart Summon sessions resulting in crashes during the session, including where the operator does not have enough time to react due to vehicle proximity or line of sight.” According to the investigation report, “Smart Summon and Actually Smart Summon are features on certain Tesla vehicles that allow a user to remotely move the vehicle to the user or to another designated location, through use of a phone app. The Office of Defects Investigation has received 1 complaint alleging that an Actually Smart Summon session resulted in a crash and has reviewed at least 3 media reports of apparently similar crashes. All four incidents involve the subject Tesla vehicles operating in Actually Smart Summon failing to detect posts or parked vehicles, resulting in a crash.”
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