After Dieselgate, which blasted Volkswagen Group for cheating on pollution certification tests, it’s Tesla’s turn suspected of treasonthis time about the safety of their cars and passing crash tests.

A few days ago, Euro NCAP published the results of its latest crash tests: Tesla Model Y received exemplary rating of five starsand broke all records for his overall rating, from 92%. In this way, the American electric SUV has become the safest model on the market, according to a well-known European organization.

Tesla crash tests: suspicious mentions in the code

A computer specialist named “Green”, known on social media for his interest in Tesla cars, took a look at the source code of the embedded software Tesla Model Y. This will include the words “ANCAP”, “I VISTA”, “EuroNCAP” and “Korea NCAP”, which refer to the names of the Australian, Chinese, European and Korean crash test organizations respectively.

Greene then wonders about the purposes of those lines of code, which there probably are related to active safety systems : although this has not yet been demonstrated in practice, they can be used change the behavior of the car brand in order to better meet the criteria of various security system tests, which are becoming more and more numerous.

Tesla just added ANCAP support to its code. This is in addition to the already existing “I VISTA” (Chinese test sites), EuroNCAP and Korea NCAP

Wonder why (they also give testhouses one-shot builds with testhouse in the name (with changed settings?))

— green (@greentheonly) September 10, 2022

Tesla crash tests: no confirmation yet

However, this does not necessarily mean that Tesla is ready to cheat. Indeed, safety and crash test protocols lead to specific driving situations: passengers are replaced by dummies, or cars are set in motion to throw them into an obstacle while they are in focus. as during normal driving.

Therefore, it is likely that these features were added to prevent the vehicle from triggering unwanted alerts and behavior during crash test protocols. Then these suspicions need to be taken with tweezersand Tesla’s guilt has not been officially proven.

Tesla crash tests: investigations underway

For their part, various global security organizations take these allegations very seriously. ANCAP, Australia’s motor vehicle safety agency, and Euro NCAP, its European counterpart, have announced look in the file.

As usual, Tesla representatives did not there is no official statement that’s all for now.

Tesla Y steals the show…

Adult resident ➡️ 97%
Child➡️87%
Vulnerable road users➡️82%
Security system➡️98% #You are here @You are here https://t.co/G7ADfPmFZN

—Euro NCAP (@EuroNCAP) September 7, 2022