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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Tesla CEO Elon Musk for a December tweet that indicated the electric automaker would disable driver monitoring alerts for some owners beta-testing «Full Self-Driving,» a form of autopilot that that’s not fully autonomous yet and requires driver oversight, according to a report from the Associated Press on Monday.
The NHTSA said Musk’s tweet is now a part of a larger investigation in 14 Teslas that have collided with emergency vehicles while Autopilot was enabled, according to the AP.
Late last month, a Twitter user tweeted at Musk requested if «wheel nag» — notifications from Tesla’s autonomous driving mode that has drivers touching the wheel to ensure they’re paying attention — could be turned off for those that have logged more than 10,000 miles in the Full Self-Driving beta.
