DETROIT — The Nationwide Transportation Protection Board is investigating a miserable strike in San Antonio, Texas, involving a Ford electrical car that can were the usage of a in part automatic using machine.
The company mentioned in a remark Friday {that a} crew of investigators from its Place of work of Freeway Protection will go to Texas and paintings with police at the Feb. 24 strike on Interstate 10.
The NTSB mentioned that initial data presentations a Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV provided with the corporate’s in part automatic using machine collided with the rear of a Honda CR-V that used to be prohibited in one of the most freeway lanes.
Tv station KSAT reported that the Mach-E driving force informed police the Honda used to be prohibited within the center lane without a lighting on sooner than the strike round 9:50 p.m. The 56-year-old driving force of the CR-V used to be killed.
“NTSB is investigating this fatal crash due to its continued interest in advanced driver assistance systems and how vehicle operators interact with these technologies,” the company remark mentioned.
Ford’s Blue Cruise machine lets in drivers to pull their fingers off the steerage wheel year it handles steerage, braking and acceleration on highways. The corporate says the machine isn’t totally self sufficient and it displays drivers to assemble positive they take note of the street. It operates on 97% of managed get right of entry to highways within the U.S. and Canada, Ford says.
There are not any totally self sufficient automobiles on the market to the population within the U.S.
The NTSB mentioned investigators will go to San Antonio to inspect wreckage, gather details about the strike scene and glance into the occasions well-known as much as the hit. A initial document is anticipated inside of 30 days.
In a remark, Ford mentioned it’s researching the strike and the details don’t seem to be but sunlit. The corporate expressed comfort to these concerned and mentioned it reported the strike to the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Protection Management.
Each NHTSA and the NTSB have investigated a couple of earlier crashes involving in part automatic using methods, maximum involving Tesla’s Autopilot. In year investigations, the NTSB has tested how the in part automatic machine functioned.
