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One of Tesla's unfortunate Autopilot workers has learned the hard way that the problematic assisted driving feature comes with a human toll.

Tesla Autopilot Worker Horrified by What Job Actually Entails

By Noor Al-Sibai

For about $20 per hour, an army of Tesla Autopilot annotators review troves of video taken by drivers while dealing with some weird rules.

The Tesla Workers Dealing With Autopilot Data Are Treated So Strangely You Won’t Believe It

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent test ride of Tesla's FSD software raises some red flags when it comes to the company's reliance on cameras.

If You Pay Attention to Tesla’s FSD Map on the Dashboard, Crucial Problems Quickly Appear

By Victor Tangermann

The rider was killed in 2022 after a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot mode rear ended the motorcycle, according to the lawsuit.

Tesla Sued by Family of Motorcyclist Mowed Down by Car on Autopilot

By Frank Landymore

Tesla is reportedly delaying its "robotaxi" event to no earlier than October casting doubt on Musk's announcement.

We’re Shocked to Hear That Tesla Is Delaying Its Amazing “Robotaxi” Event

By Victor Tangermann

The driver of the Tesla reportedly admitted to using their phone in the lead up to the crash while it was in self-driving mode.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Cop Leaps Out of the Way Just as Self-Driving Tesla Wipes Out His Cruiser

By Frank Landymore

Remember all of Elon Musk's claims that Teslas would be actually autonomous soon? Thanks to one lawsuit, he might have to pay for them.

Tesla Forced to Face Lawsuit by Drivers Who Says Elon Misled About Autopilot, FSD Capabilities

By Noor Al-Sibai

The NHTSA has found Tesla didn't adequately address the issue of driver attention when it comes to self-driving tech.

Government Says Tesla Autopilot Crashes Have Continued After Patch That Was Supposed to Fix Them

By Victor Tangermann

Justice Department is widening its probe into Tesla as it seeks to figure out whether it made fraudulent claims about self-driving.

Justice Department Investigating Tesla for Wire Fraud

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla driver had a close call with an oncoming cop car while driving with his car's "Full Self-Driving" mode turned on.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Tesla Almost Crashes Head-on Into Police Car

By Victor Tangermann

While driving in Autopilot and scrolling through his phone, a Washington Tesla driver hit and killed a motorcyclist.

Tesla Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide for Killing Motorcyclist While Browsing His Phone on Autopilot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla's controversial Full Self-Driving software is scraping up rims on curbs left and right and owners are pissed.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Teslas Have a Small Issue With Crashing Into Curbs

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has settled with a family, who sued the company over the death of Walter Huang, an Apple engineer and father of two.

Tesla Settles Suit Accusing Autopilot of Killing Driver Instead of Going to Court

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been trying to license his EV maker's so-called "Full Self-Driving" advanced driver assist software to competitors.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Is Still Trying to Get Other Carmakers to License “Full Self-Driving,” But Not a Single One Has Taken Him Up On It

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla employee and Elon Musk fan Hans von Ohain was killed after his Model 3 crashed into a tree. Full Self-Driving was likely turned on.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Employee Who Loved Elon Musk Reportedly Killed by Full Self-Driving

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla driver, who at first denied having killed a woman with his Tesla in a hit-and-run, is now claiming he must've been using Autopilot.

Tesla Driver Says He’s Not Sure If He Killed a Pedestrian Because He Was on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

To combat misuse of its Autopilot feature, Tesla issued an update with more controls and "nags." Drivers are now complaining.

Tesla Drivers Say Autopilot Is Ruined Now

By Victor Tangermann

A man in Los Angeles has been ordered to pay more than $23,000 in restitution after killing two people with his Tesla while using Autopilot.

Tesla Driver Forced to Pay After Killing Two People on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is being forced to issue software patches for more than two million of its cars over a major problem with its Autopilot feature.

Feds Blast Tesla for Massive Autopilot Issue in 2 Million Cars

By Noor Al-Sibai

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

Walter Isaacson's new biography on Elon Musk also reveals that the CEO left his engineers who wanted to use LiDAR exasperated.

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him

By Frank Landymore

Fred Lambert, editor in chief of a Tesla and EV enthusiast blog, says that Full Self-Driving tried to veer him off the road at highway speed.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Man Perturbed When Self-Driving Tesla Tries to Kill Him on the Highway

By Frank Landymore

The NHTSA has ordered Tesla to hand over any data it has about a hidden Autopilot configuration dubbed "Elon mode," which shuts off alerts.

Tesla in Trouble Over “Elon Mode” That Turns Off Autopilot Safety Features

By Victor Tangermann

The Wall Street Journal has obtained exclusive dashcam footage of a Tesla crashing into a stopped emergency vehicle with Autopilot turned on.

Brutal Dashcam Footage Shows Tesla on Autopilot Smashing Into Police

By Victor Tangermann

There were far more reported crashes involving Teslas in Autopilot mode than previously reported, according to new NHTSA data.

The Number of Known Deaths Involving Tesla’s Autopilot Has Surged

By Victor Tangermann

The feud between Elon Musk and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg seems to be deepening over Tesla's use of the term "Autopilot."

Pete Buttigieg Slams Tesla’s Autopilot as Misleading

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a CNN interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak claimed that a Tesla is "trying to kill you every chance it can."

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Steve Wozniak: If You Want to Learn About AI Killing People, “Get a Tesla”

By Victor Tangermann

In a bid to avoid Elon Musk being interviewed under oath, Tesla's lawyers have cried 'deepfake' over Autopilot claims he's made in the past.

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Tesla Lawyers Say Elon Musk’s Claims Over Self-Driving Safety Might Just Be Deepfakes

By Frank Landymore

As one might imagine, the Tesla cofounder that Elon Musk ousted all the way back in 2007 has some choice words for the, uh, eccentric billionaire.

Tesla Cofounder Rails Against Elon Musk’s “Crap” Autopilot Feature

By Noor Al-Sibai

A video posted by an account called Detroit Tesla shows a driver slipping and sliding on the city's snow-covered roads with Full Self-Driving turned on.

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Video Shows Tesla on Full Self-Driving Failing Miserably on Snowy Road

By Victor Tangermann

A German driver has lost his license after seemingly falling asleep while his Tesla drove down the Autobahn with its Autopilot feature turned on.

Tesla Autopilot Leads Cops on High Speed Chase While Driver Completely Passed Out

By Victor Tangermann

A lawsuit filed against Tesla alleges it misled consumers by claiming its cars are self-driving, to which Tesla's lawyers retort: well, it's not fraud.

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Tesla Lawyers Say Failure to Deliver Self-Driving Isn’t Technically Fraud

By Frank Landymore

The California DMV wanted a demo of Tesla's Full Self-Driving, but the automaker resisted letting some of the DMV's advisers attend.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Didn’t Want to Give Full Self-Driving Demo to DMV Authorities

By Frank Landymore

A court case is about to kick off in Los Angeles later this month, involving a fatal crash caused by a Tesla vehicle, which was on Autopilot.

Manslaughter Case Has a Strange Twist: Tesla That Killed Couple Was on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

Secretary of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttigieg weighs in on the self-driving industries promises, and it's not flattering.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Pete Buttigieg Says He Isn’t Sure Self-Driving Cars Are Ever Going to Make It

By Frank Landymore

Tesla is reportedly under criminal investigation by the Justice Department over its misleading marketing of its driver assisatence system Autopilot.

Tesla Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation for Claiming Its Cars Can Drive Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

New data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicates that all ten automated driving deaths since May involved Teslas.

Overwhelming Majority of Automated Driving Deaths Caused by Tesla Vehicles

By Frank Landymore

A large percentage of people who use Tesla autopilot seem to think that their cars are fully self-driving —even though they don't have FSD.

Survey: 42% of Tesla Autopilot Drivers Think Their Cars Can Entirely Drive Themselves

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is calling new videos that show its vehicles mowing down child mannequins while on Autopilot defamatory — and has sent a cease-and-desist letter.

Hurry Up and Watch These Videos Tesla Wants Removed From the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla’s "full self-driving" (FSD) may have to come to a full stop because the California DMV isn’t a fan of the feature’s misleading marketing.

Self-Driving Vehicles

California Wants Tesla to Stop Calling Half-Finished System “Full Self-Driving”

By Frank Landymore

A new video shared on TikTok, which has since gone viral shows a Tesla vehicle getting mightily confused by a horse-drawn carriage.

Tesla Mistakes Horse and Buggy for Murderous Semi Truck

By Victor Tangermann

A motorcyclist in Utah was killed over the weekend after a Tesla driver crashed into him from the back — while the car's Autopilot system was turned on.

Tesla on Autopilot Kills Motorcyclist

By Victor Tangermann

Self-Driving Vehicles

Head of Tesla’s Self-Driving Abruptly Leaves Company as Efforts Sputter

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is gutting a part of its Autopilot department, cutting around 200 jobs from its office in San Mateo, California, CNBC reports.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Fires 200 People Working on Its Unfinished Self-Driving Tech

By Victor Tangermann

In 16 separate Tesla crashes, records showed that the self-driving feature had suspiciously "aborted vehicle control" just before impact.

Tesla Accused of Shutting Off Autopilot Moments Before Impact

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Department of Transportation is now looking so deeply into Tesla Autopilot crashes that it's probing almost every car the company has sold in the US.

Tesla Now At Risk of Massive Recall Over Autopilot Crashes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla Autopilot May Have Been Involved in Fatal Crash That Killed Three

Tesla Autopilot May Have Been Involved in Fatal Crash That Killed Three

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla cut corners to deal with the rampant supply chain issues — putting yet another hurdle in the way to level three full-self driving cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Accused of Cutting Corner That Makes Level 3 Self-Driving Impossible

By Tony Ho Tran

Prosecutors have charged a Tesla driver with vehicular manslaughter after his Autopilot-enabled car crashed into another vehicle killing two people in 2019

Tesla Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Two People on Autopilot

By Tony Ho Tran

Baby Maeve was born in the backseat of a Tesla driving on autopilot while parents Keating and Yiran raced to the local hospital.

Woman Gives Birth in Tesla While It’s Driving on Autopilot

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Because nothing matters any more, a dog appears to have taken control of a Tesla vehicle, according to a groundbreaking investigate report.

Tesla Spotted Cruising Down Highway With Dog in Driver’s Seat

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is allowing drivers to play video games on its vehicles' massive touchscreens — while driving.

Tesla Is Now Letting Drivers Play Video Games While the Car Is Moving

By Victor Tangermann

Maybe it’s not surprising, but they're filming porn in Teslas on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. Yes, Tesla porn -- with no driver.

Oh Great, They’re Filming Porn Inside Teslas on Autopilot

By Ashley Bardhan

Police who were struck by a Tesla that reportedly had Autopilot mode engaged are now suing the automaker for false advertising.

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Police Sue Tesla for Self-Driving Car That Injured Five Officers

By Dan Robitzski

According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the next Beta of the company's Full Self-Driving beta (FSD) will "blow your mind." But is it safe?

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Elon Musk: Next Full Self-Driving Beta “Will Blow Your Mind”

By Victor Tangermann

Federal regulators investigating Tesla Autopilot's habit of ramming emergency vehicles gave the company an ultimatum: Share your data or pay a huge fine.

Feds Demand Data on Teslas Crashing Into Emergency Responders

By Dan Robitzski

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a formal investigation into Tesla's Autopilot assisted driving software.

US Gov Investigating Tesla Autopilot for Crashing Into Emergency Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla's Autopilot system got confused as it cruised down the highway and mistook the Moon for an endless string of yellow traffic lights.

Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Moon for Yellow Traffic Light

By Dan Robitzski

A fatal crash involving a Tesla Model 3 with Autopilot turned on is raising questions about the safety of the car company's self-driving feature.

In Lawsuit, Family Blames Tesla Autopilot For Death of Son

By Victor Tangermann

While it didn't drive erratically, a Tesla Model 3's Autopilot system got confused when driving behind a truck hauling traffic lights down the highway.

Watch Tesla Autopilot Get Bamboozled by a Truck Hauling Traffic Lights

By Dan Robitzski

A man in Wisconsin was reportedly seen sleeping behind the wheel of his Tesla, which had Autopilot turned on, while gunning down a highway at 82 mph.

Tesla Driver Caught Sleeping at 82 MPH With Autopilot Engaged

By Victor Tangermann

A 2015 Tesla Model S crashed into a parked Washington state deputy's patrol vehicle over the weekend with its Autopilot feature turned on.

Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Into Police Car

By Victor Tangermann

Former employee Guangzhi Cao admits to copying Tesla's Autopilot code — but denies accessing or making any use of the files after quitting.

Man Posted Video of Driving With Hands Off Wheel Before Fatal Tesla Crash

By Tony Ho Tran

Remorseless Man Brags About Abusing Tesla Self-Driving Features

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Remorseless Man Brags About Abusing Tesla Self-Driving Features

By Victor Tangermann