Is Tesla Being Investigated For Unintended Acceleration? No, Not Yet

The petition asks for that to happen, even if its author is not fully aware of that.

You have been flooded with articles that Tesla is under investigation by NHTSA due to unintended acceleration cases these days. More than 500,000 cars would be under scrutiny. It is a shame few media outlets were able to report the truth about this. What NHTSA informed was that it received a petition to investigate unintended acceleration. The agency has yet to decide if that will be the case or not.

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We have already told you about NHTSA investigation petitions. The attorney Edward C. Chen has sent one to the agency on September 17, 2019. NHTSA decided to accept that request 38 days later. In other words, to carry on the investigation. That procedure will decide if Tesla should perform a recall or not.

This time, we are just in the first step of the process. In other words, NHTSA informed it received a petition from Brian Sparks on September 30, 2019, to investigate SUA – Sudden Unintended Acceleration. We asked to see the petition, and that led us to our first question: who is he or she? Why the concern?

Looking for this person on Facebook, we have found more than 60 profiles – men and women – with the same name. We tried to narrow the research with the only info we have on this person: name and location (Berkeley, CA). The person that emerges more often is a protester that defines himself in Twitter like this: “climate justice + democratic socialism.”