Fremont Autonomous Vehicle Crash Reporting Triggers Federal Investigation

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

FREMONT (CBS SF/AP) — A small East Bay maker of autonomous vehicle systems could be in hot water with U.S. highway safety regulators over how much time elapsed before it reported the crash in Fremont of one of its test vehicles last fall.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents released Monday that it’s investigating Fremont-based Pony.ai’s reporting of an Oct. 28 crash about two weeks after it occurred.

A software error caused one of the company’s autonomous test vehicles to crash into a median road sign. Recall documents filed by the company say there were no injuries or other property damage.

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