Tesla Autopilot

The “best part” as claimed about the system is that it can also work in Indian driving environments where there are potholes, or no lane markings. New Delhi: Tesla’s Autopilot, a suite of autonomous driving features, has emerged as a major pull factor for the American EV maker, currently the second largest in the world. Among other things, Autopilot allows Teslas to self-drive from the entry point to the exit point of a highway. Technology start-up Minus Zero wants to…

The system performed perfectly, McNeill wrote, with the smoothness of a human driver.“I got so comfortable under Autopilot, that I ended up blowing by exits because I was immersed in emails or calls (I know, I know, not a recommended use),” he wrote in the email dated March 25 that year.Now McNeill’s email, which has not been previously reported, is being used in a new line of legal attack against Tesla over Autopilot.Plaintiffs’ lawyers in a California wrongful-death lawsuit cited the message in a deposition as they…

Elon Musk is taking issue with a report from the Washington Post published Tuesday detailing what the newspaper described as potentially the first death from Tesla’s Full-Self-Driving feature in 2022. Musk claims the autonomous driving feature was never even downloaded, though the billionaire CEO didn’t provide evidence to back up his claim.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview“He was not on FSD. The software had unfortunately never been downloaded. I say ‘unfortunately’, because the accident…

Viral videos of people driving while wearing Apple’s Vision Pro have horrified the public in recent days and forced the White House to come out and say: Please don’t be dumb. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetIt only took a few hours after Apple released its new $3,500 headset for videos to pop up of people using the gadget while driving, an act that clearly endangers the public, and rack up millions of views. Two of the most viewed videos feature people in Tesla vehicles, including a monstrous Cybertruck, which are…

A video of a Tesla owner wearing the new Apple Vision Pro headset while using the car’s assisted driving features, essentially letting the vehicle drive itself, and purportedly getting arrested is going viral on social media and highlighting a potentially new danger on the road.Apple's Vision Pro Seems Powerful, But Who Is It For? | Future TechPublished on Friday—the same day the Vision Pro went on sale in the U.S.—the 25-second video appears to show 21-year-old Dante Lentini, who posted the video on his X account, typing…

Tesla has issued a recall for almost every car it sold in the U.S. because of illegible warning lights. The massive recall affects more than 2 million cars and follows a similarly huge recall that hit almost every car Tesla has sold in China. Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson InterviewThe latest recall for the electric vehicle maker was sparked due to issues with warning lights on the dash, reports Automotive News. The font on certain warning lights is too small. The outlet explains: The latest recall…

Photo: ODD ANDERSEN/AFP (Getty Images)Teslas have always sounded a little too good to be true, and Elon Musk is in the dog house again for his latest expression of “free speech.” It seems Teslas can’t drive as far as once claimed and still don’t truly drive themselves. Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson InterviewTesla slashed range estimates of its Model Y Long Range and Performance models by 6% on Thursday, according to Electrek. Musk’s electric car company also issued a software update to 1.6 million…

Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends Tesla has been forced to “recall” some 2 million cars — pretty much all of them in the U.S. and Canada — because of problems with the “Autosteer” feature, which more often than not is incorrectly referred to as “Autopilot.” But before you get a picture of endless lines of four-wheeled Elon babies waiting outside Tesla repair centers, it’s worth considering the following: There are recalls, and then there are recalls. Here, according to the National High Transportation Safety…

The recall covers nearly all of the vehicles Tesla sold in the U.S. and includes those produced between Oct. 5, 2012, and Dec. 7 of this year.Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles across its model lineup to fix a defective system that's supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when they use Autopilot.Documents posted Wednesday by by U.S. safety regulators say the company will send out a software update to fix the problems.The recall comes after a…

To date, electric vehicles have cost considerably more than their gasoline-powered counterparts, but that’s finally changing. Every year, more and more inexpensive EVs are hitting the market and, with the help of local, state, and federal tax credits and rebates (if available), many of them now sell for well below the 2023 median car price of $48,000. If you’re a budget-conscious buyer, that number is probably little consolation. However, there are a lot of good options for closer to $30,000 and below — if you know…