The California Department of Motor Vehicles will suspend Tesla sales in the state if the electric vehicle company continues to mislead consumers about its driving assistance features, the DMV said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla<\/a> has 90 days to comply before facing a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer license. The use of the terms \u201cautopilot\u201d and \u201cfull self-driving capability\u201d to describe Tesla\u2019s Advanced Driving Assistance Features (ADAS) is false advertising and violates state law, an administrative judge ruled<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n According to Tesla\u2019s marketing materials for autopilot and Full Self-Drive mode, \u201cthe system is designed to be able to conduct short and long-distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver\u2019s seat.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Tesla vehicles cannot operate autonomously and are only safe when used with an alert human driver, the DMV said. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n \u201cThe DMV\u2019s decision today confirms that the department will hold every vehicle manufacturer to the highest safety standards to keep California\u2019s drivers, passengers and pedestrians protected,\u201d said DMV Director Steve Gordon in a statement. <\/p>\n Earlier this year, a Miami jury ruled that Tesla was partly responsible for a fatal crash involving its autopilot system and must pay the victims $240 million. <\/p>\n Though Tesla has previously faced similar suits<\/a>, this was the first to reach a jury verdict and not be settled out of court.<\/p>\n \u201cTesla can take simple steps to pause this decision and permanently resolve this issue \u2014 steps autonomous vehicle companies and other automakers have been able to achieve in California\u2019s nation-leading and supportive innovation marketplace,\u201d Gordon said. <\/p>\n The administrative judge issued a proposed decision after a five-day hearing in July to suspend Tesla sales<\/a> for one month. The DMV decided to give Tesla three months to correct its false advertising before facing consequences. <\/p>\n The scrutiny over Tesla\u2019s autopilot and Full Self-Drive features comes as Musk tries to prove that his self-driving robotaxis are safe and effective. <\/p>\n The robotaxis rolled out<\/a> in Austin, Texas, over the summer, where witnesses said the vehicles glitched and made dangerous driving decisions. <\/p>\n A shareholder lawsuit filed in August accused Musk of inflating the company\u2019s stock by exaggerating the readiness of its robotaxi program.<\/p>\n As demand for electric vehicles wanes under the Trump administration, Tesla is increasingly betting its future on self-driving technology and other artificial intelligence ventures such as the company\u2019s humanoid robot<\/a> Optimus. <\/p>\n Musk is competing against<\/a> the autonomous ride-hailing company Waymo, which operates driverless service in several cities including San Francisco and Los Angeles. Owned by Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet, Waymo also faced criticism recently after one of its vehicles struck and killed a beloved neighborhood cat<\/a> in the Bay Area. <\/p>\n Amazon\u2019s autonomous driving effort known as Zoox has also begun testing and serving the public in San Francisco and Las Vegas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Department of Motor Vehicles will suspend Tesla sales in the state if the electric vehicle company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1091,7,8707,19662,9,8,1804,53864,287,53867,1611,53863,53866,9925,5989,101,53862,53865],"class_list":["post-98660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-autopilot","tag-california","tag-california-department","tag-california-dmv","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-company","tag-decision-today","tag-driver","tag-electric-vehicle-company","tag-elon-musk","tag-false-advertising","tag-full-self-drive-mode","tag-last-month","tag-robotaxis","tag-san-francisco","tag-tesla-sale","tag-tesla-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}