A US politician has called upon regulators to take action on the safety measures of Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self Driving (Supervised) features, after a report surfaced dozens of videos that appear to show drivers asleep or disengaged in moving Tesla vehicles.
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois wrote to transportation secretary Sean Duffy citing an NBC News report that identified 43 videos that appear to show people asleep in moving Tesla cars, 17 of them posted this year alone.
Other videos cited in the NBC News report involved drivers bypassing Tesla safety checks by expedients as simple as wearing sunglasses, in order to watch videos, play games, or carry out other activities in moving cars.
A woman was filmed apparently asleep at the wheel of a moving Tesla in British Columbia, Canada, in July 2026. Image credit: Carleigh King
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