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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 2025-07-20 01:00:19

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 2025-07-23 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 2025-07-30 14:08:04

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 2025-08-05 22:37:13

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 2025-08-17 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 2025-08-26 18:20:11

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 2025-08-31 14:32:37

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 2025-09-15 04:38:12

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 2025-09-18 14:35:39

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 2025-09-18 17:01:41

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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