(Reuters) -The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has opened a probe into 129,222 Ford Motor vehicles over reports of collisions involving the company’s hands-free driving technology, BlueCruise.
The NHTSA opened the investigation after receiving notices of two fatal collisions involving BlueCruise-equipped Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles.
The BlueCruise system uses a camera-based driver monitoring system to determine driver attentiveness and is used on 97% of U.S. and Canadian highways with no intersections or traffic signals.
Automakers have been trying to incorporate more autonomous driving features such as lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control in their vehicles over the past few years.
(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal and Christy Santhosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza)