A crash into a pole by the Waymo driverless vehicle has prompted a second recall of the entire taxi fleet.
The company is under investigation by NHTSA for over two dozen incidents involving its driverless vehicles, including several “single-party” crashes and possible traffic law violations. Several incidents involved crashes with stationary objects, much like the May 21st crash with the telephone poll. […]
Waymo’s recall was deployed at the company’s depot by its team of engineers, not through an over-the-air software update.
The clock ticks far too long on Tesla. Why isn’t Elon Musk going to jail? Who will be the Harry Markopolos of today?
For just one out of hundreds of examples, ZEV credits were based on range so Tesla lied egregiously about theirs. This intentionally engineered fraud soaked up billions of unearned credits, and then customers realized only too late that they had paid into a scam. Tesla could owe the U.S. government return of those bilked billions.
Meanwhile Tesla is trying to claim that when it miscalculates, such as severance to the staff that it laid off, it will sue the unemployed for every single penny.
Coffeezilla, where are you? You covered the X token already. Remember X token?
I’ve said it for years and I’ll say it again, electric vehicle charging should primarily be done with sockets. Make the owner of a car bring a cable. It’s basic electricity infrastructure design, and sockets are 100 years old, as old as electric cars.
Reports like this AP hyperventilation one completely miss the point, that we don’t need giant cables dangling around in public spaces to be damaged or stolen.
Two men, one with a light strapped to his head, got out. A security camera recorded them pulling out bolt cutters. One man snipped several charging cables; the other loaded them into the truck. In under 2½ minutes, they were gone.
Replace the cable with a socket. People bring their own cable.
Problem solved.
How many years of cables being stolen, oooh scary, do Americans have to read about before charging station journalism just gets a basic clue?
Mennekes makes top quality charging points and designed them with sockets, which is thus how most of the world uses them.
For reference, cable theft is an extremely well known problem, which begs the obvious question who in America was allowed to design charging stations with vulnerable cables dangling all over the place?
The estimated loss due to cable theft in the United States is between $1.5 billion and $2 billion per year. This includes the cost of replacing stolen cables, the cost of lost productivity, and the cost of damage to property.
Tesla bothered to invent their own plug, to push the country to adapt to their charging station design, but ignored the actual problems that would destroy it all? The sheer stupidity of Tesla engineering management never ceases to amaze me.
To make an even finer point. Tesla literally took the Mennekes products, switched them to permanent cables that could be stolen or damaged, and slapped a Tesla logo on top when deploying centralized stations ripe for crime. The American electric vehicle market would be far better off without any Tesla.
This might seem like a simple case of a stolen car being recovered, but think more carefully about the implications.
A man yelling at people out the window of a parked Tesla was arrested in Arroyo Grande on Tuesday after police determined the vehicle had been stolen from an out-of-area dealership.
The dealer (arguably the owner, yet different) sent an unlock code so a man could not protect himself inside a Tesla.
Obviously his crime was to steal a Tesla, but there are many notable implications of this dealer remotely removing a car’s locks for Police to enter.
Perhaps one of the less obvious points here is that Tesla claims to not use dealers and only sell direct to consumers. So technically Police were working directly with a manufacturer to use a backdoor, which in this case was in the narrow interest of that car maker.
Another point is that the man knew just how weak Tesla security is, since he drunkenly stole the car himself, yet he also was too drunk to realize… how weak Tesla security is.
Tesla had marketed the remote door open feature as a solution for their door handles failing to work, leaving drivers trapped inside when they were too drunk to operate the car safely and their Autopilot software drove them into a tree or a parked firetruck.
Quick control to unlatch Model 3 or Model Y driver door, helpful if door handle is frozen
Yeah, I meant “frozen”. In other words an “Unlatch Door” feature from an app means the door is being remotely electronically unlatched to pop open, avoiding use of the handle at all.
Tesla Unlatch Door button on the app, which of course illustrates the wrong door opening, because Tesla.
