The Cybertruck has been on sale for nearly a year at this point, but it’s finally getting Tesla’s flagship (in Elon Musk’s mind, at least) piece of technology: Full Self-Driving. Members of the Cybertruck Owners Club forum are saying that the update enabling FSD has been installed on their trucks. Tesla Had A Very Interesting … Read more
For years, Tesla has proudly paraded its advanced driver assistance system, Full Self-Driving as being the real deal. It’s claimed the system can navigate traffic, manage highway driving and repeatedly claimed it’s the future of driving, despite the number of crashes, collisions and even deaths linked to the system mounting. Now, a new study has … Read more
Tesla, the company that CEO Elon Musk claims will “solve autonomy,” has a problem: It turns out autonomy is hard. The company is totally definitely introducing a fully autonomous robotaxi this year, for realsies, yet it can’t even figure out how to make its cars self-drive through the Vegas Loop — a tunnel Musk himself … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 8, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Happy Telsa Robotaxi Release Day! In a parallel universe, today … Read more
A Tesla Model S had Full Self-Driving engaged when it hit and killed a 28-year-old on a motorcycle near Seattle in April. This marks at least the second fatal accident involving Elon Musk’s prized driver assistance technology. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) The driver, a 56-year-old man – was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide. … Read more
A Tesla driver in California learned the hard way last week not to put too much faith in the company’s Autopilot system after the tech drove their car directly on to a train track, mistaking it for the road. People Are Relying on ADAS to Do Things it Can’t Do The incident happened in Woodland, … Read more
A Tesla in full self-driving mode slammed into a California Highway Patrol cruiser that was already responding to a fatal crash last week. The electric car was running Tesla’s advanced driver assist feature Full Self-Driving when it smashed into the cop car, forcing officers on the scene to jump out of the way of the … Read more
Driving in Manhattan is not difficult. It’s slow, often frustrating, and can put you at risk of horse-related mishaps, but it’s not hard in the way that tourists often describe. There’s a flow to things, a set of rules that — while perhaps unique to the city — make sense with a bit of observation. … Read more
The rollout of Tesla’s advanced driver assistance technology Full Self-Drive and Autopilot has been fraught with issues. There have been high-profile videos of it struggling with city traffic, deadly crashes with the tech engaged and now a new video has surfaced of a FSD-equipped Tesla driving full-speed into a rail crossing. People Are Relying on … Read more
Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s lies about the readiness of actual full self-driving cars is starting to catch up with them. A judge has just rejected the Austin, Texas-based automaker’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit that the company misled owners – tricking them into believing their vehicles would soon have self-driving capabilities. This is not to … Read more
