The safety of Tesla’s “summon” concept is entirely suspect. What if it kills many people on its way? Uber tried, and failed, to argue a trivial software switch made the company not liable for murder while en route to pick up a rider. A Tesla owner summons it in a parking lot. The Tesla runs … Continue reading Tesla Software Crash on “Summon” Function
Tesla infamously was started by someone else, someone who cared a lot about cars. Then it was forcibly taken over (stolen, really) by a dubiously rich man from South Africa who doesn’t know a thing about cars, doesn’t even know how to drive (crashed his uninsured $1M McClaren after just 10K miles), and most of … Continue reading Belgian Court: Tesla Must Fully Refund Owner
Lately it seems a software update to Tesla cars has them abruptly “veering” into other cars and off the road into trees. A half-dozen crashes recently have all the same hallmark of a serious AI/robot integrity breach, with most of them being fatal. Here’s one that just killed a mother and daughter. A Los Gatos … Continue reading Yet Another “Veered” Tesla Crash Kills Mother and Child
It looks a lot like another case of Autopilot failure, crash and a dead Tesla driver after being ejected (e.g. sleeping without a seatbelt). One person was killed and nearly a dozen others were hurt in a multi-vehicle crash on I-95 that Miami Fire Rescue called a “mass casualty incident.” The accident, which involved eight … Continue reading Tesla Driver Killed After Causing “Mass Casualty” Incident in Miami