New York,United States — Tesla came under renewed scrutiny Thursday following a report its cars could be fooled into driving with no one behind the wheel and as two senators demanded a federal probe of a recent crash.
Engineers from Consumer Reports “easily tricked” Tesla’s Autopilot to drive without anyone in the driver’s seat, “a scenario that would present extreme danger if it were repeated on public roads,” the magazine said on its website.
Meanwhile, Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Ed Markey of Massachusetts urged the US auto safety regulators to forcefully respond to a fatal car crash in Texas last weekend involving a Tesla that apparently had …
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