Safety Agency Dismisses Claims of Faulty Acceleration Against Tesla January 11, 2021 By David Shepardson The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it would not grant a petition seeking a formal review of 662,000...
REUTERS REPORT-Regulators Ignored Workers’ COVID-19 Safety Complaints Amid Deadly Outbreaks January 6, 2021 By Chris Kirkham and Benjamin Lesser Miguel Cabezola, a driver for United Parcel Service Inc. in Tucson, Arizona, complained on March 27 to U.S. workplace safety...
Former Tesla Employee Settles Over Theft of Trade Secrets, False Claims to Media December 2, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel A former Tesla Inc. factory employee will pay Elon Musk’s electric car maker $400,000 after it accused him of tipping...
Liability, Safety and Infrastructure Concerns Slow Development of Self-Driving Cars November 5, 2020 By Will Kaufman Tesla recently made headlines with the beta launch of its Full Self-Driving system. That system comes with a disclaimer saying,...
GM’s Cruise on Top in Consumer Reports Safety Ratings of Driving Assistance Systems October 29, 2020 By Paul Lienert General Motors Co.’s Super Cruise once again edged Tesla’s Autopilot in an evaluation of 17 vehicles equipped with active driving...
FBI Thwarts Cyber Attack on Tesla Factory August 28, 2020 Elon Musk said on Thursday that Tesla Inc.’s factory in Nevada was a target of a “serious” cybersecurity attack, confirming...
Tesla Says Hedge Fund Is Behind Ex-Employee’s Lawsuit August 13, 2020 By Edvard Pettersson Tesla Inc. says hedge fund Cable Car Capital LLC, which is shorting the company’s stock, is funding a former employee’s...
Tesla Pays CEO Musk Nearly $1M for Controversial D&O Insurance Arrangement July 1, 2020 By Dana Hull Tesla Inc. is making a one-time payment of almost $1 million to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk related to a...
Tesla Sued Over Highway Crash When Model 3’s Airbags Malfunctioned June 29, 2020 By Jef Feeley Tesla Inc. was sued over a Maryland highway crash last year in which a Model 3’s airbags failed to deploy,...
CEO Musk Replaces Tesla’s D&O Policy with ‘Personal Coverage’ May 1, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is getting into the insurance business again, sort of. Musk has cancelled his company’s...