Latest Tesla Headlines
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California Attorney General Warns Uber over Self-Driving Cars
Dec 19 2016 // California Attorney General Kamala Harris has told Uber Technologies Inc. to pull its self-driving cars from San Francisco’s streets or it will seek a court order forcing it do so, saying the ride-hailing company...
Pricing Insurance for Autonomous Vehicles
Nov 8 2016 // “This is a new world for insurers. The industry will need a whole new set of data tools to deal with this.” So says Michael Macauley, CEO of Quadrant Information Services, a supplier of pricing analytics to...
Entrepreneur Shuts Startup After U.S. Questions Safety of Self-Driving Kit
Oct 31 2016 // Self-driving cars are getting closer by the day, but they won’t be coming from hacking phenomenon George Hotz. Hotz, the first person to jailbreak an iPhone and a vagabond of the world’s top tech companies, has...
Automakers, Chipmakers Race to Equip Autonomous Vehicles
Oct 21 2016 // Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to equip all of its vehicles with self-driving hardware has intensified competition among rival camps of technology and auto companies over what equipment will be on board cars of the...
Tesla Says Autpilot Not at Fault in Crash with Bus in Germany
Oct 3 2016 // A Tesla Motors Inc. car operating under Autopilot collided with a bus in northern Germany, but the electric car maker said a collision was unavoidable because the bus swerved into the vehicle’s lane. The incident...
Tesla Faces Lawsuit Over Crash in China
Sep 15 2016 // Tesla Motors Inc. said it has no way of knowing whether its Autopilot system was involved in a crash in China that killed the driver because the car was too damaged to transmit data. A court in Beijing’s Chaoyang...
Tesla Introduces ‘Substantial Improvements’ to Autopilot
Sep 12 2016 // Elon Musk said Tesla Motors Inc. is updating its Autopilot technology to emphasize radar images over cameras, in his latest attempt to convince critics that the electric-car maker’s semi-autonomous driving features...
Texas Man in Tesla Autopilot Crash Won’t Sue, But Car Insurer May
Aug 19 2016 // A Texas man said the Autopilot mode on his Tesla Model S sent him off the road and into a guardrail, bloodying his nose and shaking his confidence in the technology. He doesn’t plan to sue the electric-car maker, but...
‘Self-Driving’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Hands-Free’ – Lessons of Tesla Autopilot Crash in China
Aug 15 2016 // Tesla said last week that one of its cars had crashed in Beijing while in ‘autopilot’ mode, with the driver contending sales staff sold the function as ‘self-driving’, overplaying its actual...
Missouri Man: Tesla Autopilot Helped Him Get to Hospital
Aug 11 2016 // A Missouri man says his Tesla Model X’s autopilot mode helped him get to a hospital when he suffered a pulmonary embolism. Joshua Neally told the Springfield News-Leader he felt pain in his chest and abdomen for days...
Effect of Tesla Crash on Public Views of Driverless Cars
Aug 2 2016 // Consumers are more aware of self-driving cars, but slightly less interested in riding in them, according to two surveys conducted after a fatal crash of a Tesla equipped with self-driving technology. An online survey of...
Tesla Searching for Explanation of Tesla Autopilot Crash
Aug 2 2016 // Tesla Motors Inc. told U.S. Senate Commerce Committee staff it is considering two theories that may help explain what led to the May 7 fatal crash that killed a Florida man who was using the car’s...
Safety Board Finds Automated Tesla Involved in Crash Was Speeding
Jul 27 2016 // Federal investigators probing the deadly wreck in Florida of a Tesla car that was using automated driving technology have found that the vehicle was speeding when it hit a truck. The U.S. National Transportation Safety...
How Tesla Liability in AutoPilot Crash Could Turn on Data Collected by Car
Jul 21 2016 // The large volume of data Tesla Motors Inc. collects from its cars on the road has armed it with information to publicly counter, and possibly legally defend, claims about the safety of its Autopilot driving-assist...
Autopilot Warning May Not Help Tesla in Crash Defense
Jul 18 2016 // Telling Tesla drivers its Autopilot feature doesn’t mean their cars can drive themselves may not be enough to keep Elon Musk off the hot seat if the technology comes up short. This month, two Teslas equipped with...
Probe of Tesla Crash to Address Broader Safety Issues of Automation in Cars
Jul 11 2016 // For years, U.S. investigators have been calling for more automation on motor vehicles, such as sensors that slam on the brakes to prevent a crash. At the same time, the National Transportation Safety Board, in its probes...
Tesla Says AutoPilot Not a Factor in Pennsylvania Crash
Jul 6 2016 // -The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating a July 1 crash in Pennsylvania of a Tesla Model X to determine whether automated functions were in use at the time of the accident, the agency...
Tesla CEO Musk Defends Reporting Autopilot Fatality 9 Days After Accident
Jul 6 2016 // Tesla Motors alerted regulators to a fatality in one of its electric cars in partial self-driving Autopilot mode nine days after it crashed, the company said on Tuesday, defending its decision not to make the accident...
Transportation, Tragedy and Lessons from Tesla Autopilot Fatality
Jul 5 2016 // Every car on the roads is an accident waiting to happen. It’s about time Silicon Valley woke up to the fact. The boom in autonomous-driving technology offers the prospect of one day reducing the roughly 90 percent of...
Regulators Investigating Fatal Collision of Tesla on Autopilot
Jul 1 2016 // U.S. regulators are investigating a fatal accident involving a Tesla Motors Inc. sedan that was driving on autopilot, drawing scrutiny to a key technology the electric-vehicle maker is betting on for the future of...
