{"id":15400,"date":"2022-02-14T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15400"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:04:10","slug":"elon-musk-tesla-recall-nhtsa-fun-police-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15400","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk calls NHTSA the \u2018fun police\u2019\u00a0over Boombox recall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk<\/a> apparently isn\u2019t pleased with pressure the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a> put on Tesla<\/a> to conduct its 11th recall in the U.S. in just over three months.<\/p>\n

Asked by a Twitter follower on Saturday what the rationale was for recalling a feature called Boombox<\/a>, which enabled people to play sounds through an external speaker of their vehicle, Tesla\u2019s chief executive officer replied: \u201cThe fun police made us do it (sigh).\u201d<\/p>\n

Tesla told NHTSA<\/a> on Feb. 4 that it would disable Boombox when its vehicles are in drive, neutral or reverse, to comply with a safety standard requiring electric cars<\/a> to emit sounds that alert pedestrians. In its recall report, the company said NHTSA asked for information in January 2021 to investigate whether the feature complied with the safety standard. Tesla decided to conduct a voluntary recall after months of back-and-forth with the agency, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Tesla shares fell as much as 3.1% to $833.66 before the start of regular trading Monday. The stock has declined 19% this year.<\/p>\n

Musk has repeatedly clashed with U.S. regulators, directing much of his ire at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He has said he does not respect the SEC and came up with derisive and profane plays on the agency\u2019s initials since it charged him with securities fraud over his August 2018 claims about taking Tesla private.<\/p>\n

In an April 2018 phone call, Musk hung up on the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board<\/a> over a dispute related to a fatal crash involving a Tesla that was operating on Autopilot.<\/p>\n

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into Autopilot in August, saying it would assess the technologies and methods Tesla uses to monitor and assist drivers and enforce their engagement with the system. The probe was precipitated by roughly a dozen incidents in which Teslas on Autopilot collided with vehicles at crash scenes, including first responders.<\/p>\n

Weeks after NHTSA opened the investigation, Tesla deployed an over-the-air update to its cars aimed at improving their detection of emergency vehicles and neglected to file a recall notice. NHTSA asked the company whether it intended to file a safety recall, and if not, to provide technical and legal justification.<\/p>\n

At the same time, NHTSA scrutinized Tesla\u2019s plans to expand the availability of Full Self-Driving, or FSD, the controversially named suite of features that still require fully attentive drivers to keep their hands on the wheel. Two of the 11 recalls Tesla has filed since October were related to FSD.<\/p>\n

NHTSA\u2019s actions suggest regulatory pressure is rising on technology that Musk has said played a critical role in making Tesla the world\u2019s most valuable automaker. The CEO tweeted in September that investors were giving the company \u201csignificant credit\u201d for its self-driving capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk apparently isn\u2019t pleased with pressure the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration put on Tesla to conduct its 11th recall in the U.S. in just over three months. Asked by a Twitter follower on Saturday what the rationale was for recalling a feature called Boombox, which enabled people to play sounds through an external […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}