Tesla reportedly asked highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes
Tesla reportedly asked highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes
Elon Musk's Tesla has faced investigations into Autopilot, including an ongoing NHTSA probe of more than 800,000 Teslas after several crashes.
Discussions elsewhere:
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Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37224609
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technology@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/3622044
The TL;DR:
"Tesla requested redaction of fields of the crash report based on a claim that those fields contained confidential business information," an NHTSA spokesperson told Insider in a statement. "The Vehicle Safety Act explicitly restricts NHTSA's ability to release what the companies label as confidential information. Once any company claims confidentiality, NHTSA is legally obligated to treat it as confidential unless/until NHTSA goes through a legal process to deny the claim."