Federal regulator finds Tesla Autopilot has 'critical safety gap' linked to hundreds of collisions

- Tesla's Autopilot system has a critical safety gap that has led to at least 467 collisions, with 13 resulting in fatalities - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that Tesla's Autopilot design has led to foreseeable misuse and avoidable crashes - NHTSA is opening a new probe into the effectiveness of a software update from Tesla to fix Autopilot defects - Senators are calling on federal regulators to restrict Tesla's Autopilot feature to specific roads - Tesla settled a lawsuit with the family of a man who died in a crash involving Autopilot - Elon Musk is betting Tesla's future on autonomous driving, despite lacking self-driving vehicles to date - Safety researcher Philip Koopman criticizes Tesla's marketing and claims about Autopilot capabilities as potentially dangerous

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