Enlarge / Tesla’s Autopilot system is good at keeping pace with moving traffic, but it keeps crashing into emergency responders parked by the side of the road. The NHTSA wants to know why. (credit: Tesla) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system continues apace. The Associated Press reports that […]
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 […]
Enlarge / Not sure how those joints will work… (credit: Tesla ) Not content to be an automaker or even an energy company, Tesla now wants people to think of it as a robotics company}. At Tesla’s “AI Day” presentation yesterday, CEO Elon Musk made the surprise announcement that the company is working on a […]
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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 […]
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Enlarge (credit: Tesla / Aurich Lawson) Earlier in July, Tesla announced that it delivered 201,250 electric vehicles in the second quarter of 2021. On Monday, the US automaker filled in the rest of the gaps with its Q2 financial disclosure. Q2’s deliveries were a record for Tesla, earning the company $1.1 billion in profit. Tesla […]