Tesla has been placed under federal investigation over numerous reports alleging that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software violated multiple traffic laws, leading to at least six crashes, four of which resulted in injuries.

In a report dated Oct. 7, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) cited at least 18 complaints involving Tesla vehicles using the self-driving feature that allegedly ran red lights or veered into opposing lanes.

According to the agency’s Office of Defects Investigation, the software in several cases failed to stop at red lights, remain stopped or correctly identify traffic signals. One incident cited by NHTSA involved a Tesla that "approached an intersection with a red traffic signal, continued to travel into the intersection against the red light

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