U.S. regulators have requested more information from Tesla to assist in their ongoing investigation into 830,000 Tesla vehicles that include Autopilot, the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system. The National Highway […]
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Back to news homeCarmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits.
Last fall, Missy Cummings sent a document to her colleagues at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that revealed a surprising trend: When people using advanced driver-assistance systems die or […]
Self-Driving Car Services Want to Expand in San Francisco Despite Recent Hiccups
Last week, a self-driving car stopped in the middle of a busy street during the morning rush hour in San Francisco, jamming traffic for nearly two miles. The car, which […]
Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Car Crashes
Over the course of 10 months, nearly 400 car crashes in the United States involved advanced driver-assistance technologies, the federal government’s top auto-safety regulator disclosed Wednesday, in its first-ever release […]
How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla’s Autopilot? No One Knows.
Every three months, Tesla publishes a safety report that provides the number of miles between crashes when drivers use the company’s driver-assistance system, Autopilot, and the number of miles between […]
A New Tesla Safety Concern: Drivers Can Play Video Games in Moving Cars
Not long after buying a Tesla Model 3 this summer, Vince Patton saw a YouTube clip highlighting a feature that took him by surprise: three video games that can be […]
Inside a Fatal Tesla Autopilot Accident: ‘It Happened So Fast’
George Brian McGee, a finance executive in Florida, was driving home in a Tesla Model S operating on Autopilot, a system that can steer, brake and accelerate a car on […]
Tesla Autopilot Faces U.S. Inquiry After Series of Crashes
The U.S. auto safety regulator said Monday that it had opened a broad investigation of the Autopilot system used in hundreds of thousands of Tesla’s electric cars.The investigation was prompted […]
Tesla Says Autopilot Makes Its Cars Safer. Crash Victims Say It Kills.
Benjamin Maldonado and his teenage son were driving back from a soccer tournament on a California freeway in August 2019 when a truck in front of them slowed. Mr. Maldonado […]