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Tag: Automobile Safety Features and Defects
Regulators Investigate Tesla Over Reports of ‘Phantom Braking’
The federal government’s main auto-safety regulator has opened a preliminary investigation into sudden braking by Tesla cars equipped with an…
Tesla Recalls Cars With Full Self-Driving to Prevent Rolling Stops
Tesla is recalling 54,000 cars equipped with its Full Self-Driving software to disable a feature that in certain conditions lets…
Tesla Reports 87% Increase in 2021 Deliveries
Tesla reported Sunday that it delivered 936,000 cars in 2021, an 87 percent increase from the year before, despite the…
Snow Closed the Highways. GPS Mapped a Harrowing Detour in the Sierra Nevada.
The road once carried stagecoaches during the Gold Rush, twisting its way through what is now a national forest and…
Tesla Recalls More Than 475,000 Cars Over Two Safety Defects
Tesla has told federal regulators that it plans to recall more than 475,000 cars for two separate defects that could…
Crash Test Dummies Made Cars Safer (for Average-Size Men)
“You’re not restricted by the design of the physical dummies. You can kind of replicate real fingers and so on.…