The above photo documents a 2018 Mountain View, California, crash. According to the report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the accident was the result of the "Tesla Autopilot system steering the sport utility vehicle into a highway gore area due to system limitations, and the driver's lack of response due to distraction likely from a cell phone game application and overreliance on the Autopilot partial driving automation system." (Credit: National Transportation Safety Board)
(Bloomberg) — Companies offering driver-assistance systems and developing autonomous vehicles are entering a new phase of more exacting oversight, with the top U.S. auto-safety regulator investigating four of the industry's most prominent companies in rapid-fire fashion.
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