NHTSA says it now has four reports of Teslas using FSD and then crashing after the camera-only system encountered fog, sun glare, or airborne dust.
The stakes are high for Tesla. If NHTSA determines that the company’s camera-only strategy isn’t capable of delivering on the promises repeatedly made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, it can force the automaker to issue a recall. This could involve having to retrofit the cars with new hardware at great expense or require disabling FSD, which would deprive Tesla of a critical revenue stream and perhaps even force its investors to come to terms with reality.
Maybe. The use of the FSD would have to be within strict compliance with the stated requirements of the hardware AND software, AND the damage/injury/death(s) would have to be something a reasonable person would expect the FSD to not do (i.e. ignore something important), AND (this is the critical part) expecting the DRIVER to NOT INTERFERE with the actions of the FSD would be normal.
The last part is the part that would be most difficult to prove.
Could, could, could …with no clue as to context. Given the zillions of miles driven by FSD cars and the abundant opportunities for the human to be a part of the blame, four crashes is not what one would call a huge data set,.