The California Department of Motor Vehicles said Tesla Inc has come into compliance over marketing practices for its vehicles’ automated driving capabilities and would not face a 30-day suspension of sales in the state.
The agency said in a statement on Tuesday that Tesla has taken “corrective action” to avoid the suspension.
In December last year, the company was given 90 days to come into compliance after a ruling from an administrative judge on the state regulator’s allegations that Tesla was exaggerating the abilities of features marketed as Autopilot and Full Self-Driving.
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The electric vehicle maker discontinued its Autopilot product last month.
The company has also increasingly been using the term Full Self Driving (Supervised) to advertise its driver assistance product that is not fully autonomous and requires constant supervision.
Meanwhile, Tesla’s robotaxis have been involved in over a dozen crashes in Austin since service began, according to reports the carmaker has made to regulators.
The company has said its nascent robotaxi business has been involved in 14 crash incidents in about eight months, according to data sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A federal order requires carmakers to report when automated driving systems are involved in certain crashes.
Tesla launched its limited robotaxi service in Austin in June last year with about a dozen cars accompanied by human safety monitors, and has slowly increased the fleet.
Austin remains the only city where Tesla is offering robotaxi rides.
The company launched a service on the same app in the San Francisco Bay Area last year, but those trips use human drivers and is more akin to Uber Technologies Inc.
Tesla has not disclosed how large its current Austin robotaxi fleet is. Last month, CEO Elon Musk said that between Austin and the Bay Area, there were 500 rideshare vehicles.
Competitor Alphabet Inc’s Waymo, which operates about 2,500 vehicles in Phoenix, San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Miami, and also tests autonomously in other locations, has reported hundreds of incidents since June last year.
This includes about 50 incidents in Austin, where it operates about 200 vehicles on the Uber app.
Tesla’s operations lags behind Waymo, which began offering driverless rides to the public in the Phoenix area in 2020.
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