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The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of a serious downturn if the Federal Reserve doesn't pump the brakes on its rate hikes, billionaire CEO Barry Sternlicht said.The central bank has already raised interest rates four times this year and is widely expected to hike them by 75 basis points next week in an effort to tame inflation. Earlier this week, consumer prices rose 0.1% instead of the 0.1% decline economists surveyed by Dow Jones were expecting.related investing newsHere's how we're positioned in four sectors…

Elon Musk-run Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit in the US over a phantom braking problem that the lawsuit alleged turned “a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare”. The lawsuit, filed by Tesla owner Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern District of California seeking punitive damages, claimed there are “hundreds of thousands” of customers that could seek to join his class action suit against the company, reports The Verge. The lawsuit accused the electric car-maker of…

Scientists from Beijing Institute of Technology proposed the hBCIs that incorporate EEG and EMG signals. Credit: Jiawei Ju et al. A technical paper by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology introduced simultaneous and sequential hybrid brain-computer interfaces (hBCIs) that incorporate EEG and EMG signals for classifying drivers' hard braking, soft braking, and normal driving intentions to better assist driving.…

San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit in the US over a phantom braking problem that the lawsuit alleged turned "a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare".The lawsuit, filed by Tesla owner Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern District of California seeking punitive damages, claimed there are "hundreds of thousands" of customers that could seek to join his class action suit against the company, reports The Verge.The lawsuit accused the electric car-maker…

Tesla is facing a new proposed class-action lawsuit over the phantom braking problem that has been plaguing Autopilot for years now. Back in November of 2021, Electrek released a report called “Tesla has a serious phantom braking problem in Autopilot.” It highlighted a significant increase in Tesla owners reporting dangerous phantom braking events on Autopilot. Phantom braking is a term used to describe when an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) – or a self-driving system – applies the brakes for no good…

A Tesla owner from San Francisco filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the electric vehicle company over a phantom braking problem that he claims has turned “a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare.” The lawsuit was first reported by Reuters. The lawsuit was filed by San Francisco resident Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern District of California. In the complaint, Toledo estimates that there are “hundreds of thousands” of Tesla customers that could seek to join his class…

A California owner of a Tesla Model 3 sued the electric vehicle maker in a proposed class action over cars suddenly stopping for non-existent obstacles, calling it a "frightening and dangerous nightmare," according to the lawsuit. Tesla has rushed its autonomous driving cars to market with unsafe technology, including its driver assistant system which the company calls Autopilot or Full Self-Driving, and its emergency braking system, according to the lawsuit by Jose Alvarez Toledo of San Francisco. This adds to growing…

Utilising the energy generated when a train brakes, US-based CO2Rail has worked with researchers from The University of Sheffield to develop Direct Air Capture (DAC) equipment that can help tackle climate change and clean the air around a rail car. The device's design would allow it to be installed in special rail cars in currently running trains. It would capture and utilise vast amounts of sustainable energy generated when a train decelerates or when brakes are applied. The energy can be used to separate carbon dioxide…

NHTSA issued a letter to Tesla after receiving 758 reports that its most popular vehicles brake for unexpected reasons. Photo: Mark Hertzberg/Zuma Press…

When last we checked in with Tesla’s “phantom braking” problem, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had received 350 complaints from owners who said their vehicles were braking for no reason. Now that number stands at 758, and the US government has some questions. On May 4th, NHTSA fired off a 14-page “request for information” letter to Tesla about these incidents, including a request for all consumer and field reports it has received about false braking, as well as reports of crashes, injuries,…