Tesla is recalling around 2 million of its vehicles in the U.S. to fix Autopilot features that auto safety regulators found to be confusing to drivers, or too easy for them to misuse and abuse. The NHTSA opened an investigation into 11 incidents involving Tesla cars where Autopilot and Autosteer were involved in 2021, a probe which ultimately led to today's voluntary recall. He hopes Tesla and NHTSA will pay special attention to roads with cross traffic, because there have been multiple fatal crashes with trucks in that situation involving Tesla vehicles with Autopilot engaged. If people need to steer, for instance, they must pay attention. The Autopilot system will still be helpful if it just does the accelerating and braking but people could not not pay attention."

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Persons: Elon, Twitter —, Tesla, Autosteer, Philip Koopman, Koopman, hasn't, Erik Vinkhuyzen Organizations: SpaceX, Twitter, New York Times, National, Traffic, NHTSA, Federal Reserve, Carnegie Mellon University, CNBC, King's College London, CNBC PRO Locations: New York City, U.S