German authority would not have approved beta-phase Tesla autopilot: newspaper

Germany's Federal Office for Motor Vehicles (KBA) would not have approved the autopilot system installed on Tesla cars if the technology was still in a beta-phase version, it told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Tesla's partial self-driving Autopilot feature has been thrust under the microscope since a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S sedan in the United States in May. European approval for the autopilot system was gained in the Netherlands, but the view of KBA is significant because Germ