In 2014, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) completed a multi-year process that led to a new safety standard: all new cars and trucks sold in the United States must include rearview cameras as of May 2018.

Tesla on Thursday discontinued its basic driver-assistance system, Autopilot, in Canada and the US, in an attempt to push customers toward a more advanced version of the technology branded as Full Self-Driving (Supervised).