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According to news in the morning of August 12, Beijing time, two US congressmen responsible for supervising automobile safety asked the federal auto safety regulator to introduce the investigation into Tesla's accident using autopilot and advanced driver assistance system.

In a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Democratic Senator Gary Peters and Congressman Jan Schakowsky said they were concerned that "the federal investigation and recent reports have uncovered Tesla's disturbing safety issues".

Lawmakers asked: "in view of the increasing death toll of Tesla's car crashing into tractors and trailers... will NHTSA consider conducting a defect investigation into this issue?"

"has the NHTSA struck a balance between thoroughly investigating and responding to urgent and emerging motor vehicle safety risks?" the letter said. And whether the agency has sufficient resources and legal powers to properly investigate advanced driver assistance systems.

NHTSA had no immediate comment. In July, NHTSA director Steve Cliff (Steve Cliff) told the media that he hoped to complete the investigation into Tesla's advanced driver assistance system autopilot as soon as possible, "but I also hope to get things right. There's a lot of information we need to sort out."

Tesla, who has disbanded the press office, had no immediate comment. Tesla said on its website that the autopilot can allow the vehicle to turn, accelerate and brake automatically, "but it requires active supervision by the driver and will not allow the vehicle to drive on its own."

Since 2016, NHTSA has launched 38 special investigations into Tesla's vehicle accidents suspected of using advanced driver assistance systems such as autopilot. In these investigations related to Tesla, a total of 19 people died in car accidents.

Last month, NHTSA said it had launched a special investigation into a 2020 Tesla Model 3 crash in Utah that killed a motorcyclist.

In June, NHTSA upgraded its defect investigation to an investigation of 830000 Tesla cars equipped with self-driving systems that crashed into parked emergency vehicles, a necessary step for the company to issue a recall. The survey was first launched in August 2021.

Tesla has reported 273 crashes involving advanced driver assistance systems since July 2021, more than any other carmaker, NHTSA said on June 15.

Lawmakers asked whether NHTSA had determined whether Tesla had implemented safety measures to prevent advanced driver assistance systems from "being activated without proper operating conditions".

The National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies question whether Tesla is good enough to ensure that drivers are focused when using autopilot.

The lawmakers wrote in the letter: "did the NHTSA investigation find that allowing advanced driver assistance systems to run under inappropriate circumstances constitutes a design flaw?"

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