The U.S. federal agency is investigating an accident involving a 2022 Tesla Model S that may have been operating on autopilot during an accident that killed three people.

Autopilot is Tesla’s Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), which performs automated functions such as steering, acceleration and automatic braking. This news was first reported by Bloomberg.

The crash earlier this month occurred in Newport Beach, California, when Tesla crashed into a curb and crashed into construction equipment. leaving the car summed up. It is one of more than 30 accidents being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), all of which potentially involved autopilot. Of Tesla’s 35 special accident investigations since 2016 involving the ADAS electric car company, autopilot has been ruled out in just three.

During these investigations, 14 deaths were reported in accidents.

The collision this month is the 42nd, which is included in a special NHTSA crash investigation into ADAS systems such as autopilot, an investigation that began in 2016 after a fatal crash in Florida involving another Tesla Model S in which autopilot was activated.

Although Tesla’s website states that “current autopilot functions require active driver control and do not make the vehicle autonomous,” the company’s branding is accused of misleading drivers about the capabilities of their cars. By simply choosing titles such as autopilot and “self-management software” that is Tesla’s newest, more advanced ADAS, the company lulls drivers into a false sense of security, even though its technology is far from completely self-driving .