NHTSA Report Connects Hundreds of Crashes with Driver-Assistance Tech

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a report listing hundreds of vehicle crashes in cars equipped with Level 2 driver-assistance tech, the agency announced today.NHTSA started requiring automakers to submit the information in June of last year, and its initial findings are based on about 10 months of data.Its first report says there have been 392 vehicle crashes in the U.S. involving a Level 2 driver-assist system, six of which were fatal.

Over the past 10 months, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has collected data on certain crashes involving vehicles equipped with driver-assist features. The U.S. agency today published the initial results of that data collection, which reveals hundreds of crashes with vehicles using Level 2 driver-assistance technology.

Based on a new requirement called a “Standing General Order on Crash Reporting for Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems,” NHTSA has required automakers to report an accident if “Level 2 ADAS was in use at any time within 30 seconds of the crash and the crash involved a vulnerable road user or resulted in a fatality, a vehicle tow-away, an air bag deployment, or any individual being transported to a hospital for medical treatment.”

Of the crashes that were reported by the manufacturer, Tesla had the most with 272 reports. Honda (90 incidents) and Subaru (10 incidents) reported the second and third most crashes involving a Level 2 system. NHTSA also revealed that among the 98 crashes where an injury was reported, five were serious and six were fatal.

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NHTSA said that prior to issuing an order in June 2021, it had relied on vehicle owner questionnaires, media reports, and direct outreach from automakers to get this kind of data and called that process “generally inconsistent.” Now that the agency has better standards in place to collect the data, it can better respond and raise awareness regarding accidents that involve driver-assistance technology.

Still, as NHTSA administrator Steven Cliff reportedly told the New York Times before today’s announcement, it’s too early to draw conclusions from these initial findings. He also said to understand that the data doesn’t account for variables such as the number of cars each automaker has on the road that have these types of driver assists. Cliff said that NHTSA will continue collecting data on driver-assistance-related crashes to help guide requirements around how the technology is designed and functions, according to the article in the New York Times.

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