1/ What Lars Moravy, Tesla VP of vehicle engineering, said on Q1 call Apr. 27, 2021 - "We’re committed to safety in all our design and that’s number one in what we do here. Regarding the crash in Houston specifically, we work directly with the local authorities, NTSB & NHTSA...
2/(cont'd) wherever applicable and whenever they reach out to us for help directly on the engineering level, and whatever else we can support. In that vein, we did a study with them over the past week to understand what happened in that particular crash. And what we've learned...
3/(cont'd)from that effort was that Autosteer did not & could not engage on the road condition as it was designed. Our adaptive cruise control only engaged when the driver was buckled and above five miles per hour, and it only accelerated to 30 miles per hour with the distance...
4/(cont'd) before the car crashed. As well, adaptive cruise control disengaged the car fully to complete to a stop when the driver's seat belt was unbuckled. Through further investigation of the vehicle and the accident remains, we inspected the car with NTSB and NHTSA...
5/ (cont'd) and the local police, and were able to find that the steering wheel was indeed deformed, so there must-- leading to a likelihood that someone was in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash. And all seatbelts post-crash were found to be unbuckled....
6/ (cont'd) We were unable to recover the data from the SD card at the time of impact, but the local authorities are working on doing that, and we await their report.
As I said, we continue to hold safety in a high regard...
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