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Well, we'll start with this huge piece of breaking news, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States has now launched an official investigation into Tesla's full self-driving system.

They say say because of

safety concerns related to crashes occurring in low visibility conditions. This follows four

reported incidents, including a significant case in November 2023 in Arizona, where a model Y vehicle

struck and killed a pedestrian, according to TechCrunch.

This is not the first time that Tesla has been examined for their claims on autonomy.

That was normally the autopilot system.

This is specifically their full self-driving supervised technology.

The Office of Defect's investigation has identified for specific incidents

under standing general order reports involving Tesla that has FSD, FSD beta, FSD supervised.

These crashes occurred in areas with, all in common, low visibility caused by sun glare, fog or dust. One of them, like I say,

resulted in a fatality. Others caused injuries. The investigation will cover FSD in tester models like

the S and the X from 2016 to 2024. Model 3 from 2017 to today, Model Y, 2020 to today, and cybertruck, all of them.

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