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NHTSA Investigates Tesla Over Delayed Crash Reporting
Crashes Involved Driver-Assistance Technology
Auto safety regulators are looking into delays by Tesla Inc. in reporting details of crashes involving driver-assistance technology.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has identified multiple incident reports from the automaker that were submitted 鈥渟everal months or more鈥 after the accidents took place, according to a filing posted to the agency鈥檚 website.
Under an agency order, companies were generally required to file such reports within one or five days of receiving notice of a crash, NHTSA said.
The delays were 鈥渄ue to an issue with Tesla鈥檚 data collection, which, according to Tesla, has now been fixed,鈥 NHTSA said.
The agency鈥檚 Office of Defects Investigation has opened a so-called audit query to assess the cause of the late reports and mitigation efforts to prevent future occurrences.
Tesla didn鈥檛 immediately respond to a request for comment.
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