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Tesla fires employee who posted YouTube videos of Full Self-Driving accident

Enlarge / A Tesla with Full Self-Driving enabled, a moment before hitting a bollard in San Jose. (credit: AI Addict ) Ex-Tesla employee John Bernal says he was fired for posting YouTube videos about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta . He had been creating the videos with regard to about a year. Bernal says that […]

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Elon Musk says he’s hiking “full self driving” by another $2,000

Enlarge / The Model Y still includes a steering wheel for Tesla owners who want to drive for themselves. (credit: Tesla) Tesla’s highly controversial “full self driving” feature is getting yet another price increase. CEO Elon Musk used his Twitter feed last Friday to announce the price hike, telling his millions of followers, “Tesla FSD […]

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Tesla recalls 11, 706 vehicles over Full Self-Driving Beta software bug

Enlarge / Tesla is issuing a recall more than phantom collision warnings and brake activations. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Tesla) Tesla’s controversial “Full Self-Driving” feature took another hit on Tuesday. The Texan automaker issued a recall for nearly 12, 000 vehicles after an over-the-air software update introduced a new bug that can cause false activations […]

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Tesla pulls Full Self-Driving update after sudden braking spooks drivers

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 […]

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Musk turns on Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving beta, says it’s “actually not great”

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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US investigates Autopilot after 11 Teslas crashed into emergency vehicles

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 […]

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Tesla owner who “drives” from back seat got arrested, then did it again

Enlarge / Interior of a Tesla Model 3. (credit: Tesla) The California Highway Patrol said it arrested a man seen riding in the back seat of a Tesla Model 3 that had no one in the driver’s seat. Param Sharma, 25, was arrested “and booked into Santa Rita Jail” on counts of reckless driving and […]

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Tesla: “Full self-driving beta” isn’t designed for full self-driving

Enlarge / YouTuber Brandon M captured this drone footage of his Tesla steering toward a parked car using the FSD beta software. “Oh Jeeeesus,” he said as he grabbed the steering wheel. (credit: Brandon M) The transparency site Plainsite recently published a pair of letters Tesla wrote to the California Department of Motor Vehicles in […]

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Tesla Increases”Total self-driving” Cost from $8,000 to $10,000

Expand / / Interior of Tesla’s Model 3. (charge: Tesla) Tesla is wasting no time poking on enthusiasm within the organization’s forthcoming”complete self-driving” software launch, which has been published in beta type into some few clients a week. Tesla has {} the cost of this FSD update from $8,000 to $10,000. Tesla has tinkered with […]