(Bloomberg) – Tesla Inc.'s design of its Autopilot system contributed to a 2016 fatal crash in Florida, U.S. accident investigators concluded as they recommended all automakers prevent autonomous driving systems from being used on roads for which they are not designed.
The National Transportation Safety Board, in its first probe of autonomous driving technologies, recommended Tuesday that systems such as Tesla's Autopilot be unavailable when the vehicle is traveling on a road where its use is inappropriate.
Related: Tesla owner in Autopilot crash won't sue, but car insurer may
|Divided road with occasional intersections
The accident occurred on a divided road with occasional intersections and the company had warned owners not to use Autopilot in those conditions. In spite of those warnings, the car's software allowed drivers to go as fast as 90 miles an hour under automated steering, the NTSB found.
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