It must be earnings day!

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“electronic data recovered from the vehicle indicated that before the crash, the driver manually overrode FSD (Supervised) by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100%…”

According to the arrest affidavit, Butler told police he did not feel sick at the time of the crash and did not have any alcohol or drugs in his system.  He said he was making a DoorDash delivery when he changed the music on the Tesla’s touchscreen and eventually “passed out,” according to the court documents.

Driver told authorities he had driver-assistance technology engaged before crash that killed 76-year-old Martha Avila

A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was allegedly in self-driving mode crashed into a Texas house Friday night, killing a woman who was inside the home, investigators said.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46666813

A major Reuters investigation published today reveals that Tesla’s widely touted “Full Self-Driving” safety statistics are built on deeply flawed methodology — and that the company’s own data labelers, the workers who train the AI system, don’t trust the technology to drive them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64231980

TLDR: Since Tesla’s June 2025 robotaxi launch, Tesla has built a 39-vehicle unsupervised fleet, while Waymo has a newly disclosed 3,791-vehicle U.S. fleet. So Tesla appears to be on pace to catch up with Waymo’s autonomous fleet size by the year 2111. Assuming, of course, Waymo politely stops building autonomous vehicles and waits for Tesla until the 22nd century.

The Dutch Tesla owner who launched a collective claim against Tesla over FSD on HW3 cars called Tesla to ask about the €6,400 he paid for “Full Self-Driving” in 2019. After 7 years of waiting, Tesla’s answer was to “just be patient.”

The American EV brand’s sales rebounded in the first quarter, but a new problem is making its presence felt.

The agency is now opening an engineering analysis, a required step before it can seek a recall

Here's an mildly interesting one:

I have a customer account at my local taxi company. I don't drive, so I use taxis regularly, and I get discounts for sticking with the same taxi company.

Yesterday, I received an email telling me that, as a premium customer, I was entitled to special requests when I book a ride: all I had to do was tell them my preferences and they would be applied for free whenever possible when I need a driver.

So I told them I preferred non-smoking drivers, and I didn't want to ride in a Tesla vehicle.

A rep emailed me today and told me they couldn't guarantee that the driver would always be a non-smoker because if there's no other driver available around, they'd have to send a smoker to give me a ride. But they could guarantee that I would never ride in a Tesla, because they had no Teslas in their fleet.

Why I asked? Because drivers quickly found out that the hidden door handles were a problem for many customers who can't open the door themselves, and while the driver always tried to open the door for the customers, it wasn't always possible if there are many riders and/or many pieces of luggage to load in the trunk.

Interesting... I never thought about that, and obviously neither did the Tesla engineers. They basically locked themselves out of a market trying to be fancy instead of being practical.

TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43130680

Tesla filed a criminal complaint and called police to its Gigafactory Berlin after accusing an IG Metall union representative of secretly recording a closed works council meeting on Tuesday. Police seized the representative’s laptop. The incident comes just three weeks before roughly 11,000 employees vote in a works council election that could reshape the future of the plant.

The death of the Model S and Model X signal a new era for Tesla: the end of its traditional car business.

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Exclusive: ‘Tesla’s done a lot of good things, in my calculation,’ attorney Lynn Shumway told The Independent, ‘but they did this inadequately.’