Tesla Accused of Inflating Self-Driving Safety Claims

Tesla Inc.

(NASDAQ:TSLA) presented self-published safety data to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands in a bid to secure approval of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) system, which amounts to misleading marketing according to independent traffic-safety researchers.

A newly published investigative report by Reuters claims that the EV manufacturer relied on invalid data comparisons and unrealistic assumptions to overstate the safety performance of its FSD driver-assistance technology, allegedly inflating the Tesla safety advantage by…