Enlarge / GM’s Super Cruise system is tightly geofenced to divided-lane highways and only operates if the system can determine that the human in the driver’s seat will be paying attention to the road ahead, ready to respond if there’s a problem. (credit: General Motors) On Thursday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced that […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Prosecutors in California have charged a Tesla driver with two counts of manslaughter as a result of a fatal crash in December 2019. According to the Associated Press , the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed that the Autopilot driver-assistance feature was active at the time of the […]
Enlarge / Sky Force Reloaded running on a Tesla’s central screen while the car is driving down the particular road. (credit: YouTube / Cf Tesla ) Earlier this month, we covered a software update issued by Tesla that allowed games to be played on the infotainment screen while the car was in motion. We pointed […]
Enlarge / The front view of Tesla’s new Model 3 car on display is seen on Friday, January 26, 2018, at the Tesla store in Washington, DC. (credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images ) Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software lived up to its “beta” label this weekend. On Saturday morning, CEO Elon Musk announced […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | eccolo74) Tesla has been sued by five Texas police officers who were injured when a Tesla Model X in Autopilot mode crashed into police vehicles that were stopped and had their flashing lights turned on. The officers also sued the owner of a restaurant accused of overserving alcohol to the […]
Enlarge / Tesla Autopilot is currently under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 12 crashes and one death. Now the company is expanding access to an experimental version of the software. (credit: Tesla) Over the weekend, Tesla expanded access to the latest version of the company’s highly controversial $10,000 automated driving feature. […]
Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk. (credit: PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images ) If you haven’t been impressed with what you’ve seen of Tesla’s latest Complete Self-Driving beta, version 9. 2, you’re not alone. CEO Elon Musk agrees. “FSD Beta 9. 2 is actually not great imo, ” he said in a tweet last night, “but Autopilot/AI […]
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Enlarge / A 2014 Tesla Model S driving on Autopilot rear-ended a Culver City fire truck that was parked in the high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 405. (credit: Culver City Firefighters Local 1927 / Facebook ) US government regulators are opening an investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system after cars using the feature crashed into stopped […]