A potentially faulty driverless car feature found in roughly 2.6 million Tesla cars on U.S. roads highlights the risks associated with CEO Elon Musk's plans to roll out unsupervised Full Self-Driving this year.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it is investigating nearly 2.6 million Tesla vehicles over a remote driving feature.

U.S. regulators have opening an investigation into 2.6 million Tesla after reports of crashes involving the use of company technology that allows drivers to remotely command their vehicle to return to them,

The “Actually Smart Summon” feature enables drivers to remotely summon or move their vehicles to them or another location via a mobile phone app.

The 16 incidents span the use of Tesla's smart summon feature in the following models: 2020-2025 Model Ys, 2017-2025 Model 3s, and Model S and Model X made from 2016-2025. All told, the NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation says this totals some 2.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is probing about 2.6 million Teslas after regulators discovered that a feature on multiple vehicle models was tied to crashes. The feature, known as "Actually Smart Summon" is intended to have the car park itself and pick up its owner using a button on the Tesla app.

The agency has previously investigated earlier versions of Smart Summon, which is meant to let a Tesla vehicle park itself or fetch a driver via remote app command.