Electric vehicle pioneer Tesla Inc TSLA recently held a “safety research day,” revealed company executive Rohan Patel in a post on X.
Event Overview: The affair was spearheaded by Tesla Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy and the Tesla vehicle engineering team. It played host to a diverse array of government, academic, and non-governmental organization leaders, Patel disclosed in a response to an X user’s query about sharing safety test results with regulatory bodies.
The session zeroed in on Tesla’s advancements in active and passive safety, notably its autopilot technology, Patel added, underscoring the company’s unwavering dedication to fabricating “the safest vehicles ever made.”
“We are delighted to disseminate these insights to regulators and researchers for the maximum benefit of the public, not just Tesla owners,” he noted. Patel currently serves as the vice president of Public Policy and Business Development at Tesla.
“It was an exceedingly impressive event. The magnitude of analysis, testing, simulation, and real-world data calibration that Lars and the team undertake would astonish people. They have a profound commitment to producing the safest cars possible, even implementing over-the-air updates for the existing fleet,” remarked Patrick Bean, who collaborates with Tesla’s Policy & Business Development.
Significance: Just last week, Tesla reasserted its dedication to safety, emphasizing that “Safety is the primary design objective for our vehicles.” This reiteration likely stemmed from recent media reports insinuating the use of Tesla’s full self-driving beta software in an accident leading to the tragic demise of Tesla recruiter Hans von Ohain in May 2022.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk also refuted the report, stating that the FSD was not engaged in the vehicle.
“Unfortunately, the software had not been downloaded. I say ‘unfortunately’ because the accident probably would not have occurred if FSD had been engaged,” Musk lamented.
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