Driverless driving, Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, California, USA

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Article "Tesla Full Self-Driving subscription launches, but some owners are peeved"
Tesla promised owners of specific vehicles wouldn't need a hardware update, but instead, there's a $1,500 charge involved for -- yep -- a hardware update.

by Sean Szymkowski
July 19, 2021

 

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Article "U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes"

by David Shepardson and Hyunjoo Jin
August 17, 2021

 

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Article "Tesla's use of the term Full Self-Driving is 'irresponsible,' NTSB chief told the Wall Street Journal"

by Emily Walsh
September 19, 2021

 

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Article "Tesla puts Full Self-Driving beta on hold after Elon Musk expresses 'last minute concerns'"

by Emily Walsh
October 10, 2021

 

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Article "Government safety agencies are finally catching up with Tesla and Autopilot"

by Tim Levin
October 27, 2021

 

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Article "Tesla requires Full Self Driving testers to allow video collection in case of a crash"
For first time, video will be VIN-associated to a specific vehicle.

by Steve Dent
November 24, 2021

 

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Article "Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars"
The automaker may have undermined safety in designing its Autopilot driver-assistance system to fit its chief executive’s vision, former employees say.

by Cade Metz and Neal E. Boudette
December 6, 2021

 

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Article "Elon Musk says Tesla doesn't get 'rewarded' for the people its Autopilot technology saves, but instead gets 'blamed' for the people it doesn't"

by Francis Agustin
December 19, 2021

 

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Article "Elon Musk is once again promising Teslas will drive themselves in the near future — a claim he's been making since at least 2015"

by Benjamin Gilbert and Tim Levin
January 27, 2022

 

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Article "Tesla lets go of hundreds of Autopilot data labelers as it closes San Mateo office"

by Fred Lambert
June 29, 2022

 

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Article "Elon Musk says Tesla will hike the price of FSD driver assistance software by 25% in September"

by Lora Kolodny
August 21, 2022

 

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Article "Tesla now has 160,000 customers running its Full Self Driving beta"
On Tesla’s AI day, the company shared new details on its Autopilot and FSD improvements as well as an update on its Dojo supercomputer.

by Andrew Hawkins and Umar Shakir

 

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Speeding Tesla kills 2 in China, carmaker denies claims that brakes failed

Nov 14, 2022

Two people were killed in an accident involving a Tesla electric car in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on November 5, 2022. Surveillance footage showed the Model Y vehicle pulling over to apparently park when it suddenly accelerated and took off. Other cameras captured footage of the car speeding along roads for about 2km (1.2 miles) before crashing. The car manufacturer has denied claims that the brakes failed, but agreed to cooperate with the police investigation.

 

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Article "What Riding in a Self-Driving Tesla Tells Us About the Future of Autonomy"
Cade and Ian spent six hours riding in a self-driving car in Jacksonville, Fla., to report this story.

by Cade Metz, Ben Laffin, Hang Do Thi Duc and Ian Clontz
November 14, 2022

 

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Article "Exclusive: surveillance footage of Tesla crash on SF’s Bay bridge hours after Elon Musk announces “self-driving” feature"
Musk has said Tesla’s problematic autopilot features are “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.”

by Ken Klippenstein
January 10, 2023

 

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Video captures Tesla driver apparently asleep at the wheel on California freeway

Feb 4, 2023

A motorist captured video of what appeared to be a Tesla driver asleep behind the wheel while in traffic on a Southern California freeway.

It came as a shock to the couple that spotted the driver on the 15 Freeway near Temecula.

KTLA's Shelby Nelson reports on Feb. 3, 2023.

 

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Article "Tesla Robotaxis Touted Years Ago Are Nowhere to Be Found"
A dedicated model and more iterations of hardware are clear signs Elon Musk isn't close to making customers' cars fully autonomous.

by Dana Hull
February 15, 2023

 

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Article "An engineering professor warned that people trust self-driving technology so much it’s ‘injuring them or killing them’ a day before Tesla’s massive recall"

by Tristan Bove
February 17, 2023

 

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Article "Tesla cofounder calls Autopilot and FSD software 'crap' that could risk the carmaker's future"

by Grace Kay
February 18, 2023

 

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Article "Tesla explains what’s happening to Autopilot with FSD Beta v11, adds voice feedback"

by Fred Lambert
February 20, 2023