(Bloomberg) – Federal safety regulators have asked Tesla Motors Inc. for a broad range of documents and information about the automated driving systems in use when a 2015 Model S collided with a truck in a fatal accident in Florida.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it hasn't made a determination about whether the vehicles are defective and described the information request as a "standard step" in the preliminary evaluation of Tesla's automated driving system.
In a July 8 letter to the company NHTSA released Tuesday, the agency told Tesla's director of field performance engineering it was examining the automatic emergency braking system and "any other" forward crash avoidance systems in use at the time of the fatal crash.
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