A Tesla Model Y turning left at an intersection collided with a pickup truck in Batavia, Illinois, killing a passenger in the Tesla — Maggie Espinosa, 37, a teacher and mother of five. It was reported as an ordinary intersection crash.
But Electrek …
Tesla reports its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” crashes to the federal government, as it’s required to — and then blacks out almost everything in those reports, so the public never learns what happened in those crashes. Tesla always end up blaming …
Weeks after a Tesla Model 3 sat stopped in a live Florida interstate lane and its driver was killed, it happened again — a 2020 Model 3, stopped dead on a Phoenix-area freeway at 3 a.m., rear-ended by a pickup, its driver dead at the scene.
And as i…
A 43-year-old man died when his Tesla Model 3, stopped in a live lane of Interstate 4, was rear-ended by a semi. Florida troopers said they couldn’t explain why the car was stopped in the middle of the highway.
Tesla’s own data can explain it, the c…
Tesla told federal regulators that its driver-assist system was “verified engaged” when a Model 3 crashed at 104 mph and killed its driver in Clute, Texas — a detail that never appeared in any police statement or news report about the crash, which happ…
Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they’re all Chinese automakers.
Tesla holds its Cybercab launch event in Austin on September 3, and it’s being sold as a milestone. Here’s my prediction: it’s going to look a lot like the last time Tesla launched this car, back in October 2024.
Expect a big robotaxi fleet number as t…
BYD posted its first quarterly profit increase in more than a year, with second-quarter net profit rising 29.8% to 8.2 billion yuan ($1.22 billion) as a record surge in exports offset a weak Chinese market.
The rebound ends four straight quarters of pr…
A Tesla running the latest version of “Full Self-Driving” failed to stop at an active railroad crossing this week and nearly drove straight into a passing train, according to the driver and as evidenced in dashcam footage.
The kicker: it was running FS…
As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk’s approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo’s VP of Onboard Software, doesn’t specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled “10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million […]