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Tesla involved in fatal Washington crash was using self-driving mode
01 Aug

Tesla involved in fatal Washington crash was using self-driving mode

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A deadly accident in Washington that took the life of a motorcyclist earlier this year was caused by a Tesla vehicle while it was in “Full Self Driving” mode. The Associated Press reported that investigators from the Washington State Patrol confirmed that a 2022 Tesla Model S involved in the fatality accident in April was in self-driving mode from the car’s event-data recorder.The accident occurred on April 19 on the eastbound side of State Route 522 approximately 15 miles northeast of Seattle. The unidentified driver told police he had his Tesla’s self-driving mode on and was looking at his phone…
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Tesla recalls 1.8 million vehicles over risk of detached hoods
30 Jul

Tesla recalls 1.8 million vehicles over risk of detached hoods

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Tesla has issued a recall on 1.8 million vehicles across the United States, Reuters reports, a sizeable number even for a company that is no stranger to this turn of events. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced the recall due to a risk of software failure to notify individuals of a detached hood.A hood that isn't properly secured could detach while a person is driving and block their view. Tesla has issued an over-the-air software update that should fix the issue. The recall is on select Model 3, Model S and Model X vehicles from 2021 to 2024.…
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Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late
26 Jul

Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late

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Tesla car culture is full of hacks and shortcuts, some more effective than others. One, known as the “wet towel” trick, required the Tesla Charging department — or whatever remains of it — to publicly tell customers to knock it off.The “wet towel” trick involves wrapping a damp, cool cloth around a Supercharger cable handle as a way to presumably speed up the charging time. The Supercharger has temperature monitors that keep it from overheating as it charges Tesla vehicles. Some Tesla owners believe that cooling down the charging handle will trick the temperature monitor into topping off their vehicles…
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Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis
22 Jul

Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis

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The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week, have been torched, stomped on, and verbally berated in recent months. Now Waymo is striking back—in the courts.This month, the Silicon Valley company filed a pair of lawsuits, neither of which have been previously reported, that demand hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages from two alleged vandals. Waymo attorneys said in court papers that the alleged vandalism, which ruined dozens of tires and a tail end, are a significant threat to…
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Elon Musk confirms the Tesla Robotaxi event has been delayed to October
15 Jul

Elon Musk confirms the Tesla Robotaxi event has been delayed to October

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Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that Tesla’s robotaxi event scheduled for August has been delayed to October. The CEO replied on X (the former Twitter, which he owns) to a user’s post that he “requested what I think is an important design change to the front, and extra time allows us to show off a few other things.”Musk’s X post appears to echo what Bloomberg reported last week. The publication claimed on July 11 that delaying the event would give Tesla more time to build additional prototypes. It added that the company had communicated the delay internally and that the…
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China’s BYD is catching up with Tesla in sales
02 Jul

China’s BYD is catching up with Tesla in sales

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China’s leading EV manufacturer, BYD, is catching up with Tesla in sales, according to sales figures published by Reuters. The company posted a 21 percent increase in electric vehicle sales throughout the second quarter. This totals 426,039 EVs from April to June, which is just 12,000 fewer vehicles than Tesla’s estimated deliveries for the same time period. This places BYD in a good position to become the world’s leading vendor.Tesla just reported a five percent drop in deliveries for the most recent quarter, which is the first time the company has ever experienced two straight quarters of decline. It produced…
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Tesla’s Cybertruck has been recalled again
25 Jun

Tesla’s Cybertruck has been recalled again

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Tesla’s Cybertruck is being recalled yet again, . The company issued a physical recall that could impact nearly 12,000 owners of the .Here’s how it breaks down. The company’s recalling 11,688 Cybertrucks due to a faulty windshield wiper that could significantly reduce visibility while driving. It’s also recalling 11,383 electric pickups because of trim in the bed that could come loose and create a road hazard for other people on the road. Tesla said that it’s “not aware of any injuries or deaths” related to either issue, .The NHTSA's indicates that Tesla will replace the wiper motor once the owner…
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Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live
23 Jun

Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live

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A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam, in the latest of a series of similar bogus streams. The video, which has has since been taken down, showed a clip of Musk that was meant to look like a livestream from a Tesla event, with an AI-generated version of his voice instructing viewers to visit a website and deposit their bitcoin, Ethereum or Dogecoin in order to participate in a giveaway. The message, playing on a loop, promised the system would then “automatically send back double the…
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Cybertruck buyers say they’ve been told deliveries are paused due windshield wiper problems
15 Jun

Cybertruck buyers say they’ve been told deliveries are paused due windshield wiper problems

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Some Cybertruck buyers who were scheduled to receive their new trucks this week have been told they’ll have to wait a little while longer as the company addresses a safety issue with the windshield wiper motor. Tesla hasn’t publicly confirmed any such problems or issued an official recall, but numerous commenters on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum and Reddit said they were notified that deliveries have been halted and their pickup dates were pushed back a week.This follows reports from Cybertruck owners who have said that the windshield wiper failed on them, in some cases almost immediately after the truck…
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Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk’s ‘unfathomable’ pay package
14 Jun

Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk’s ‘unfathomable’ pay package

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Tesla shareholders have again approved Elon Musk’s multi-billion dollar pay package several months after a Delaware court it. During the electric car maker’s annual shareholder meeting, the company's stockholders signed off on a proposal to reinstate Musk’s pay package, currently worth about $48 billion, according to .Judge Kathaleen McCormick of Delaware’s Chancery Court previously called the Tesla CEO’s pay, worth $56 billion when it was first approved in 2018, an "unfathomable sum.” Musk responded by threatening to move the company’s state of incorporation to Texas. During Tesla’s meeting, shareholders officially signed off on the move.The approval of Musk’s compensation doesn’t…
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