The US opened a federal investigation into whether Tesla’s partial-automation system marketed as Full Self-Driving is defective after a series of crashes, one of which resulted in a fatality. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it will assess whether Tesla’s system, also known as FSD, has the ability to detect and appropriately respond … Read more
Tesla’s pivotal partnership with Baidu in China may amount to a U-turn of sorts for Elon Musk, who has long claimed his company can eventually offer self-driving without high-definition maps. The chief executive told investors five years ago that Tesla “briefly barked up the tree” of relying on traffic lane-level maps for its driver-assistance systems, … Read more
Ahead of what was sure to be a high-profile legal battle, Tesla this week opted to settle a lawsuit that centered on the safety of the company’s Autopilot feature. Tesla’s Autopilot feature was introduced in 2015 to a lot of fanfare. However, it wasn’t long before we started to see several Autopilot-related accidents emerge. With … Read more
Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement was made on the eve of the trial over the high-profile accident involving Tesla’s driver-assistant technology. Tesla faces a … Read more
Published By: Samreen Pall Last Updated: December 13, 2023, 16:55 IST Tesla: 2 Million Vehicles Recalled Amidst Safety Concerns and Software Fixes. Tesla recalls 2 million vehicles for faulty Autopilot attention system. NHTSA finds monitoring inadequate, leading to crashes. Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles across its model lineup to fix a defective … Read more
Tesla is recalling more than two million vehicles it sold in the U.S. and 193,000 sold in Canada to fix a defective system that is supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when they use Autopilot. Documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators say the company will send out a software update to fix the problems, and notification … Read more
Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends Tesla has been forced to “recall” some 2 million cars — pretty much all of them in the U.S. and Canada — because of problems with the “Autosteer” feature, which more often than not is incorrectly referred to as “Autopilot.” But before you get a picture of endless lines of … Read more
