Overview
- Key responses are now due February 23 after regulators moved the original January 19 deadline in the ongoing evaluation of Full Self-Driving.
- Tesla told NHTSA that 8,313 records still require manual review and that teams can process about 300 per day before providing incident summaries.
- NHTSA’s preliminary investigation, opened in October, covers roughly 2.9 million FSD-equipped vehicles and includes 62 consumer complaints plus additional identified reports.
- The agency’s December information request warned of potential noncompliance penalties of up to $27,874 per day and sought detailed data on complaints, crashes, lawsuits and internal assessments.
- Tesla says overlapping federal probes—including inquiries into delayed crash reporting and inoperative door handles—are straining resources, as the company shifts FSD to subscription-only access starting February 14.