Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) - Tesla said one of the self -driving features was active during the April 17 accident that killed two men in Spring, Texas..
The police said that no one was in the driver's seat at the time of the accident.
Lars Moravi, Vice President of Vehicle Engineering in "Tesla", said in the company's profit call on Monday that the adaptive speed installation system in "Tesla" was working and accelerating to 30 miles per hour before the car crash.
Self -driving includes a set of driver assistance features, including the perceived traffic installation system and the "Autostare" system that directs the steering wheel, according to "Tesla" website.
Tesla's revelation may conflict with the initial description of its CEO Elon Musk, who said two days after the accident that "the data records that have been recovered so far show the lack of operation of the self -driving feature.".
However, it is unclear whether Musk defines the advantage of self -driving in a more useful way to his company by referring to the entire group, instead of the individual features that make up the group..
"Tesla" says on its official website that the current features of self -driving require active supervision from the driver and not make the car able to drive independently.Tesla also warns the drivers that they should be attentive and ready to take over the mission.
Moravi said on Monday that the "Tesla" car, which was crashed in Texas, was not the "Autoster" system..
Brian Rimmer, assistant director of the New England University Transport Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies the driver's help systems such as self -driving, says that one of the reasonable interpretations of the accident is that the driver was confused and I think he activated the "Autoster" feature, while in reality it was an installation systemThe traffic speed of traffic is only the one that works.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment and does not deal in general with the news media.