Tesla Autopilot

Tesla aims for paid robotaxis next year but regulatory hurdles remain

On Wednesday, however, Tesla won back some investor confidence by forecasting a jump in vehicle sales next year. In California, in particular, the company will face an uphill climb in securing

Elon Musk may delay in Aug 8 robotaxi unveil event to make design change

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has appeared to confirm a report that the company's much-ballyhooed event to unveil a robotaxi will be delayed beyond its scheduled Aug 8 date. Musk didn't give a new date for the event, but in a posting on X on Monday, the social media site he owns, he wrote that he requested a design change to the front of the vehicle. "The extra time allows us to show off a few other things, he wrote. A message was left Monday seeking comment from Tesla. Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that the robotaxi event would be delayed until October due to changes sought by Musk. That sent Tesla shares down 8% for the day. But they have since rallied and were up nearly 3% in Monday afternoon trading. Tesla shares had been down more than 40% earlier in the year, but are up more than 80% since hitting a 52-week low in April. For many years Musk has said Tesla's Full Self Driving system will allow a fleet of robotaxis to generate income for the company and Tesla owners, making use o

In latest setback, Tesla must face autopilot false ad claims by DMV

Monday's ruling comes less than a month after a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Tesla must face a proposed class-action lawsuit by consumers making similar claims

Tesla must face claims it misled buyers about autopilot and self-driving

Musk declared in April that Tesla is going balls to the wall for autonomy while committing the car maker to a next-generation, self-driving vehicle concept called the robotaxi

US seeks info from Tesla on how it verified if autopilot recall worked

The agency said it will evaluate whether driver warnings are adequate, especially when a driver-monitoring camera is covered

US probes if Tesla Autopilot recall did enough to make drivers attentive

The US government's auto safety agency is investigating whether last year's recall of Tesla's Autopilot driving system did enough to make sure drivers pay attention to the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted on its website Friday that Tesla has reported additional crashes involving Autopilot since the recall, raising concerns at the agency about the effectiveness of the remedy. The recall involved more than 2 million vehicles, nearly all the vehicles that Tesla had sold at the time. The agency pushed the company to do the recall after a two-year investigation into Autopilot's driver monitoring system, which measures torque on the steering wheel from a driver's hands. The fix involves an online software update to increase warnings to drivers. But the agency said in documents that it has found evidence of crashes after the fix, and that Tesla added updates that weren't part of the recall. This investigation will consider why these update

Tesla settles lawsuit over man's death in crash involving its Autopilot

Tesla has settled lawsuit brought by the family of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company's semi-autonomous driving software. The size of the settlement was not disclosed in court documents filed Monday, just a day before the trial stemming from the 2018 crash on a San Francisco Bay Area highway was scheduled to begin. The family of Walter Huang filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit in 2019 seeking to hold Tesla and, by extension, its CEO Elon Musk liable for repeatedly exaggerating the capabilities of Tesla's self-driving car technology. They claimed the technology, dubbed Autopilot, was promoted in egregious ways that caused vehicle owners to believe they didn't have to remain vigilant while they were behind the wheel. Evidence indicated that Huang was playing a video game on his iPhone when he crashed into a concrete highway barrier on March 23, 2018. After dropping his son off at preschool, Huang activated the Autopilot feature on h

Tesla autopilot recall threatens its defence in lawsuits over crashes

An increased threat of losses for Tesla in Autopilot litigation could embolden others to challenge the technology in court and force the company to pay compensatory damages

Tesla recalls over 2 mn vehicles for fixing autopilot monitoring system

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 US safety regulators say the company will send out a software update to fix the problems. The recall comes after a two-year investigation by US auto safety regulators into a series of crashes that happened while the Autopilot partially automated driving system was in use. Some were deadly. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says its investigation found Autopilot's method of ensuring that drivers are paying attention can be inadequate and can lead to foreseeable misuse of the system. The recall covers nearly all of the vehicles Tesla sold in the US since it activated Autopilot late in 2015. The software update includes additional controls and alerts to further encourage the driver to adhere to their continuous driving responsibility, the documents said. The sof

After Tesla eases monitoring of ones using autopilot, regulators seek reply

Tesla is allowing some drivers use its Autopilot driver-assist system for extended periods without making them put their hands on the steering wheel, a development that has drawn concern from US safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered Tesla to tell the agency how many vehicles have received a software update making that possible and it's seeking more information on what the electric vehicle maker's plans are for wider distribution. NHTSA is concerned that this feature was introduced to consumer vehicles, and now that the existence of this feature is known to the public, more drivers may attempt to activate it, John Donaldson, the agency's acting chief counsel, wrote in a July 26 letter to Tesla that was posted Wednesday on the agency's website. The resulting relaxation of controls designed to ensure that the driver remain engaged in the dynamic driving task could lead to greater driver inattention and failure of the driver to properly ...

Hacker finds secret 'Elon Mode' for hands-free driving in Tesla vehicles

A Tesla software hacker discovered a secret feature called "Elon Mode," which could be Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla's own supersecret driver mode. This enables hands-free automobile driving

Elon Musk likely to testify under oath about his Autopilot tweets

Musk previously tweeted a 2016 promotional video for Autopilot as evidence that Tesla "drives itself" with "no human input at all"

Tesla AI Day 2022: Musk unveils humanoid robot Optimus; here's what we know

According to Elon Musk, this humaoid prototype can do more than what was shown live. However, the first time it operated without a tether was during Tesla AI Day event

US agency probes Tesla crashes that killed 2 motorcyclists on autopilot

Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal regulators

Tesla's Autopilot system kills another motorcyclist, US begins probe

A Tesla vehicle has allegedly killed another motorcyclist, this time in the Utah state in the US when a driver using Autopilot slammed into the rear of his bike.

Tesla's Autopilot AI director Andrej Karpathy quits amid widespread layoffs

In a tweet, Karpathy said he has no concrete plans for what's next but looks to spend more time revisiting his long-term passions around technical work in AI, open source and education

Tesla lays off 200 Autopilot employees in latest jobs cut: Report

Elon Musk-owned Tesla has reportedly shown exit door to approximately 200 workers from its Autopilot team and closed an office in California, media report says

Ex-Tesla Autopilot chief CJ Moore leaves Apple electric car project

CJ previously served as a director of development of Tesla's autopilot software with seven years at the company, and most recently as a director of autonomous systems at Apple.

Tesla owner faces criminal charges for deadly Autopilot crash in US

In a first, serious criminal charges have been filed against a Tesla Model S owner in the US for a deadly crash in 2019 that involved the vehicle's advanced driver assist system called 'Autopilot'.

Tesla replacing faulty Autopilot cameras in some cars: Report

Elon Musk-owned electric car maker Tesla is reportedly replacing repeater cameras in the front fenders of at least several hundred Model S, X and 3 vehicles made in Fremont, California