After detecting 11 different incidents involving Tesla’s Autopilot technologies over the course of four years, the US agency in charge of highway safety has formally opened a formal investigation into the function.
According to the paper, the 11 collisions resulted in 17 injuries and one death. The collisions occurred in nine states, with the majority of them occurring after dark.
Tesla did not immediately reply to a request for comment from ABC News on Monday.
Autopilot systems have long been defended as safe by the business and its eccentric CEO Elon Musk.
The NHTSA reminded the public in a statement to ABC News that “no commercially available motor vehicles currently are capable of driving themselves,” and that all vehicles must have a human driver in charge at all times.