Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests (opens in new tab)

A Chinese TV channel spent a bunch of money doing ADAS tests and Tesla came out on top of all the Chinese brands, including all the LIDAR systems. Although tests were all in the day time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xumyEf-WRI&t=1203s

https://electrek.co/2025/07/29/another-huge-chinese-self-dri...

XPENG (major chinese ADAS brand) recently decided to copy Tesla's vision-only+AI world gen data approach, after originally focusing only on LIDAR https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/xpeng-vla-2-test-drive-tesla-...

There's also been talk of companies pushing a hybrid LIDAR+vision approach using custom hardware since it's complex to merge the two datasets. So the answer might eventually be somewhere in between instead of companies choosing one or the other depending on costs.

Neat. I wonder which others will pass. I wonder if safety sense 3 cars will pass too. Speaking of which it’s insane a sienna doesn’t have that. I wish Tesla made a van instead of the cyber truck. Americans and their truck obsession…

I wonder if we're going to see a different spin on dieselgate in the future. Where a car company collects all the data from the NHTSA's test environment through the cars cameras/sensors and then includes that data into the training datasets for other cars/sfw updates. (I'm not implying that this happened, but I imagine it would at some point)

yet i still can’t use basic autopilot on the highway because it phantom brakes every 2 hours

"four newly integrated advanced safety tests:

    Pedestrian automatic emergency braking 
    Lane keeping assistance 
    Blind spot warning, and  
    Blind spot intervention 

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Don't most cars do something like that now? I'm curious what's different between Tesla and, say, a Honda Accord?

wth man I was told mh Model Y that I bought around 2021 was going to do all this but it's now too old or something?