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Tesla's Robotaxis Have Already Gotten Into Numerous Accidents

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 05:05:37

Tesla has been caught hiding details of three separate robotaxi accidents that happened since the launch of the service. As Electrek reports, the Elon Musk-led company reported the three crashes, which occurred in the early days of its pilot robotaxi service in Austin, to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA.) At the time, the company's robotaxi fleet of modified Model Y vehicles only consisted of "ten to 20" vehicles, according to Musk, which even had safety drivers sitti

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iPhone’s Crash Detection feature saves teen who fell asleep behind the wheel

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-21 09:15:38

This is probably not the first time you’ve read about an iPhone automatically calling 911 following a serious car crash, but stories like this never cease to impress. Watch the video below. As reported by WFMJ, earlier this month, 16-year-old Lindsay Leskovac fell asleep while driving back home late at night. She crashed her truck, suffered multiple fractures, including both legs and her cervical spine, and lost consciousness. Upon detecting the crash, her iPhone automatically dialed 911, and

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Tesla asks court to toss wrongful death verdict that cost it $243 million

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-22 09:32:56

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Lawyers for Tesla filed a motion in court Friday to throw out a jury verdict that found the company’s Autopilot software had contributed to the death of a woman in a crash from 2019. Earlier this month, a jury found Tesla partially res

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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

news.ycombinator.com Brad Lendon 2025-10-27 22:38:42

A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says. The January 28 crash at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks was recorded in a video that showed the aircraft dropping straight down and exploding in a fireball. The pilot ejected safely, suffering only minor injuries, bu

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Tesla is dragging its feet in reporting FSD and Autopilot crashes to the government

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-11-04 04:06:53

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is under investigation for failing to report crashes involving its partially autonomous driving technology in a timely manner. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires automakers to report crashes involving adv

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Feds investigate Tesla over inaccurate autopilot and FSD crash reports

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:58:37

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) just announced an investigation into Tesla regarding its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) systems, according to a report by Electrek. The road safety regulator says the probe involves inconsistencies with how the company reports crashes regarding the aforementioned systems. The NHTSA requires automakers to report crashes involving autonomous and driver assistance systems within five days of being notified of them. The agency claims

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‘Alien: Earth’ Begins With Crucial Context and Constant Chaos

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-21 17:00:30

There’s a moment in the second episode of Alien: Earth where everything changes in an instant. The show you think you are watching, about a crashed ship and some weird hybrids, becomes the show you’ve always wanted to see. One of the most iconic creatures in film history makes its debut on your TV screen, it’s slow-motion, and it’s glorious. From there, things only get more interesting, more disgusting, and more awesome. It’s off to the races. The first two episodes of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Eart

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Inspector General Probing FAA’s Handling of D.C. Airspace After Thousands of Close Calls

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-28 08:30:55

Nearly eight months after a deadly collision occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., the Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General announced Friday that it would open a probe into the Federal Aviation Administration’s handling of the airspace around the international airport. The inciting incident for the investigation was the midair crash that occurred this January when a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regiona

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Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-09 00:17:40

Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash 2 days ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology correspondent in San Francisco Share Save Reuters A jury in Florida has found Tesla partly liable for a 2019 crash in which a Model S sedan using self-driving software killed a pedestrian and severely injured another. Plaintiffs had argued the assistance software, called Autopilot, should have alerted the driver and activated the brakes before the crash. Tesla had mai

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Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death

news.ycombinator.com Aarian Marshall 2025-12-11 08:16:15

A Miami jury found Tesla partially liable Friday in a 2019 crash that killed one person and injured another—all while the driver of the Model S used the automaker’s Autopilot driver assistance feature. The jury found Tesla liable for $200 million in punitive damages, plus an additional $43 million in compensatory damages. (Because of state laws, the company will likely end up paying less.) A jury found the automaker one-third responsible for the crash; it found the driver of the Tesla, who sett

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Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-12 03:48:28

Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a dealership on July 24, 2025 in Austin, Texas. A jury in Miami has determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, and must compensate the family of the deceased and an injured survivor a portion of $329 million in damages. Tesla's payout is based on $129 million in compensatory damages, and $200 million in punitive damages against the company. The jury determined Tesla should be held 33% responsible for the fatal cras

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Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

news.ycombinator.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-12 00:28:53

Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a dealership on July 24, 2025 in Austin, Texas. A jury in Miami has determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, and must compensate the family of the deceased and an injured survivor a portion of $329 million in damages. Tesla's payout is based on $129 million in compensatory damages, and $200 million in punitive damages against the company. The jury determined Tesla should be held 33% responsible for the fatal cras

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Tesla Ordered to Pay More Than $200 Million Over Fatal Autopilot Crash

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-12 03:35:44

A jury in Florida found Tesla partially liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving one of the company’s vehicles operating in Autopilot mode. The jury awarded a combined $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages to Tesla, according to The New York Times. The incident in question occurred in Key Largo, Florida, in 2019. George McGee was behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S and had the company’s Autopilot software activated while traveling down a two-lane road at night. As the car drove throu

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Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-12-12 03:41:28

A Miami jury found Tesla partially liable Friday in a 2019 crash that killed one person and injured another—all while the driver of the Model S used the automaker’s Autopilot driver assistance feature. The jury found Tesla liable for $200 million in punitive damages, plus an additional $43 million in compensatory damages. (Because of state laws, the company will likely end up paying less.) A jury found the automaker one-third responsible for the crash; it found the driver of the Tesla, who sett

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Tesla to pay more than $200 million in damages after being found partly liable for fatal Autopilot crash

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-12 03:57:28

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A federal jury in Florida found Tesla partly liable for a deadly 2019 crash involving Tesla’s Autopilot driver assist software, according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. Tesla has been ordered to pay $200 million in punitive damages and about $43 million in compensatory damage

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In Court for Fatal Crash, Tesla Admits It Wasn't Even Tracking Autopilot Crashes for the First Three Years of the Program

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-07 06:00:19

With so many massive and well-publicized safety issues, nothing should surprise us about Tesla's internal culture — but new revelations from the country's first federal Autopilot crash trial have us shaken once again. As Law360 reports, an engineer at Elon Musk's car company revealed during a wrongful death trial this week that until 2018, the company didn't even keep records of Autopilot crashes — even though the assisted driving feature had been rolled out three years prior. In a taped depos

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The Latest ‘Alien: Earth’ Trailer Adds Even More Alien Monsters

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-11 22:30:25

In the Alien movies, one killer species is more than enough for humanity to deal with. Actually, it’s almost always too much. Most everyone usually dies. But, in Alien: Earth, which comes to FX on August 12, it’s not just that iconic xenomorph the characters will have to deal with. Four other killer monsters have crash-landed on our planet too. Let the fun begin. From the mind of Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth takes a whole new look at the franchise made famous by the likes of Ridley Scott and James

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Tesla’s Autopilot is under scrutiny in a rare jury trial

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-01-19 22:08:04

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Tesla is on trial in Miami today in a case that accuses Elon Musk’s company of liability in a fatal crash involving Autopilot. The driver-assist system has come under scrutiny in the past for a number of fatal incidents, but Tesla has only rarely faced a jury trial over the question of whether Autopilot was at fault for som

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Tesla on "Lane Assistance" Mode Gets Horrifically Impaled on Guardrail

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-27 12:37:13

While Tesla's so-called "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" features have generated more than their share of controversy, one of the company's other assisted driving modes is now in the spotlight after a nail-biting crash in California. As SFGate reports, a young Tesla driver walked away with minor injuries after his Model Y careened off the I-5 interstate and crashed directly into a guardrail in the wee hours of morning, becoming impaled all the way through. According to California Highway Pa

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A Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now She’s Fighting the Right-Wing Disinfo Machine

wired.com Varsha Bansal 2026-02-10 21:00:00

On January 29, a Blackhawk helicopter crashed into a commercial airliner in the skies over Washington, DC. The collision killed all 67 people on board both aircraft, including the pilots. But online, a different pilot—one that wasn’t even present—was being blamed for the tragedy. Within two days, the rumor spread like wildfire. The morning of January 31, Jo Ellis, a part-time pilot with the Virginia Army National Guard, woke up to messages from a friend warning that she was being named online a

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Windows is finally kicking the Blue Screen of Death to the curb

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-21 12:20:11

The notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is finally heading to a junkyard upstate. This error message has been a key part of the Windows experience for almost 40 years. Microsoft has been teasing this change for years , but now we know the crash screen will be removed in an update to Windows 11 that's coming later this summer . Windows computers are still going to crash , so there needs to be some sort of error screen. Microsoft is transitioning to a Black Screen of Death instead. This new cra

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Feds question Ford in hands-free driving investigation

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-02-27 08:32:37

The top federal vehicle safety regulator has sent Ford an exhaustive list of questions about its hands-free driver-assistance system known as BlueCruise. It’s the latest development in an investigation that started more than one year ago following two fatal crashes involving the software. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) sent a letter to Ford on June 18 that contains 25 questions. Many of them are basic, such as asking Ford for a

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Someone Somehow Survived That Massive Boeing Jet Explosion

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-15 10:38:12

On Thursday, a Boeing jet crashed just moments after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad in western India. The Air India airliner, carrying 242 passengers, slammed into a nearby medical college and exploded in an enormous fireball. Somehow, one man survived: 38-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh. "I don't know how I am alive," Viswash said, according to his younger brother Nayan Ramesh, as quoted by the New York Times. In a video widely shared on social media, the India-born British citizen ca

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One Survivor Walks Away From Air India Plane Crash That Killed 241: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-03-18 19:35:39

A London-bound plane carrying 242 people crashed in Ahmedabad, India, shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Air India flight 171 crashed into B.J. Medical College, where early reports suggest dozens more have been killed on the ground, according to the New Indian Express. There was one survivor from the plane, according to the BBC. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh survived the crash, according to the Hindustan Times and the BBC, which cites Ahmedabad’s police chief GS Malik as a source. The man, a 40-year-ol

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Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-18 23:01:41

A Boeing Dreamliner 787 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood with 242 people aboard mere moments after taking off from Ahmedabad in western India, exploding in an immense fireball. The cause of the immensely tragic loss of life remains unknown. As CNBC reports, it could take months to find out. The top-selling wide-body aircraft was delivered to Air India in 2014. According to a tweet by FlightRadar, the Boeing jet ascended to roughly 200 feet before plummeting back down at a "vertica

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Latest Tech News

Tesla's Robotaxis Have Already Gotten Into Numerous Accidents

iPhone’s Crash Detection feature saves teen who fell asleep behind the wheel

Tesla asks court to toss wrongful death verdict that cost it $243 million

F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

Tesla is dragging its feet in reporting FSD and Autopilot crashes to the government

Feds investigate Tesla over inaccurate autopilot and FSD crash reports

‘Alien: Earth’ Begins With Crucial Context and Constant Chaos

Inspector General Probing FAA’s Handling of D.C. Airspace After Thousands of Close Calls

Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash

Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death

Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

Tesla Ordered to Pay More Than $200 Million Over Fatal Autopilot Crash

Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death

Tesla to pay more than $200 million in damages after being found partly liable for fatal Autopilot crash

In Court for Fatal Crash, Tesla Admits It Wasn't Even Tracking Autopilot Crashes for the First Three Years of the Program

The Latest ‘Alien: Earth’ Trailer Adds Even More Alien Monsters

Tesla’s Autopilot is under scrutiny in a rare jury trial

Tesla on "Lane Assistance" Mode Gets Horrifically Impaled on Guardrail

A Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now She’s Fighting the Right-Wing Disinfo Machine

Windows is finally kicking the Blue Screen of Death to the curb

Feds question Ford in hands-free driving investigation

Someone Somehow Survived That Massive Boeing Jet Explosion

One Survivor Walks Away From Air India Plane Crash That Killed 241: Report

Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds

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