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Tesla that crashed into police car was in 'autopilot' mode, California official says
A Tesla car operating in “autopilot” mode crashed into a stationary police car in Laguna Beach, California, leaving the driver injured and the patrol vehicle “totalled”, according to an official. Sgt Jim Cota, the public information officer for the Laguna Beach police department, tweeted photos of the accident, which was reported at 11.07am on Tuesday. The driver of the Tesla, who suffered minor lacerations to the face from his glasses, told police officers the Tesla was in the semi-autonomous mode, although further investigation is needed to confirm this.
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Tesla in Autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser
A Tesla sedan in Autopilot mode crashed into a parked Laguna Beach Police Department vehicle Tuesday morning, authorities said.
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Elon Musk's Twitter rant is a smoke-and-mirrors tactic that hides the disturbing truth about Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk now appears to think the media is his enemy. For an entrepreneur who has received what can conservatively be described as luminous-megawatt-white-hot-genuflecting press for a decade and a half, this a remarkable development. But it shouldn't be particularly surprising to Musk's boosters, haters, armchair psychotherapists, and, least of all, members of the media, who have been expressing shock that Musk would propose a new service — trollishly named Pravda, after the old Soviet-era propaganda sheet — designed to crowdsource evaluations of media truthfulness.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk blasts media, pitches site to rate journalists: 'No one believes you'
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, ripped the news media for what he described as irresponsible reporting and suggested he would launch a website to assess the legitimacy of individual journalists and news organizations. Musk on Wednesday unleashed a barrage of criticism aimed at reporters, saying they are "sanctimonious," have "earned this mistrust" and are kowtowing to the business interests of their publications. It wasn't immediately clear whether any specific news report triggered the rant, which totaled at least 19 tweets.
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It gets worse: Tesla now has to compete with $50,000 electric BMWs going for $54/Month.
Tesla has to compete with BMW leasing its $50,000 i3 electric vehicle for only $54 a month. That’s not a typo. Bloomberg recently confirmed you could lease an i3 for less than your monthly cable bill.
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Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two problematic robot bottlenecks in Model 3 production
Over the last few weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been showing a lot of confidence about fixing the problems that have created delays in the automaker’s Model 3 production ramp up.
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Tesla says top vehicle engineer Doug Field is 'taking time off' amid Model 3 production woes
Tesla's senior vice president of engineering, Doug Field, is leaving the company for what the auto maker is characterizing as a leave of absence. Late Friday, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported that Field wasstepping back from his duties at Tesla, amid ongoing production problems with its Model 3 sedan. A Tesla spokesperson told CNBC that "Doug is just taking some time off to recharge and spend time with his family. He has not left Tesla."
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Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
Tesla’s giant Powerpack battery in Australia has been in operation for about 6 months now and we are just starting to discover the magnitude of its impact on the local energy market. A new report now shows that it reduced the cost of the grid service that it performs by 90% and it has already taken a majority share of the market.
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Report: Tesla battery reignited days after fiery crash in Mountain View
Six days after a fiery crash on Highway 101 involving a Tesla Model X took the life of a 38-year-old San Mateo man, the car’s high-voltage lithium-ion battery re-ignited while sitting in a tow yard, according to the Mountain View Fire Department. The revelation was included in a safety memo written last month by Mountain View Fire Chief Juan Diaz, and first reported Wednesday by KTVU2.
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Tesla's problem: overestimating automation, underestimating humans
Tesla was hoping to produce 5,000 new Model 3 electric cars each week in 2018. So far, it has failed to manufacture even half that number. Questioned on the matter, the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, claimed that “excessive automation was a mistake” and that “humans are underrated”. He’s not wrong – the recent drive for full automation has overlooked the importance of adaptability. Humans are still far more able to adapt to change than artificial intelligence (AI). In the long-term, AI has the potential to replace human workers, but for now leaders need to determine the right speed of change.
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Elon Musk says Tesla Model Y will be a ‘manufacturing revolution’
Forthcoming electric crossover will begin production in 2020
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Tesla owner who turned on car's autopilot then sat in passenger seat while travelling on the M1 banned from driving
A man who switched on his car's autopilot before moving to the passenger seat while travelling along a motorway has been banned from driving for 18 months.
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Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s
GM spent billions on a mostly fruitless 1980s attempt to automate carmaking.
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Tesla’s fleet has driven 7.2 billion miles and its energy products produced 10.3 billion kWh
For earth day, Tesla released some interesting data about its fleet of electric vehicles and its energy products with a fun Lord of the Rings theme.
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Tesla's troubles are piling up — but the Elon Musk cult is still full of true believers
Tesla is beset by production problems and swimming in debt, its bonds are considered junk status, its stock has more people betting against it than any other major company. There are real concerns it won't be able to raise enough cash to keep going. But even with all its problems, there are still very good reasons to believe in the world's best known electric car maker.
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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry.
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Why are electric cars so much harder to build than reusable rockets?
Elon Musk works in two vastly expanding universes, and the growing pains faced by Tesla are connected to a simple fact: It's trying to do a much harder job than SpaceX.
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World's largest solar battery? Tesla's may get beat
An energy company wants to build another huge solar farm in the California desert — and it may come with the world's biggest battery. That battery would be triple the size of the one Tesla drew worldwide attention for building in Australia last year. The Crimson solar project would span 2,500 acres of public land south of Interstate 10, east of Palm Springs at the base of the Mule Mountains.
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Is Tesla Ever Late? No, Not Really.
Now, such a headline could easily make many people roll their eyes. However, a case can be made that Tesla is moving the world towards sustainability at “ludicrous speed.” Investors are annoyed that Musk does not set predictable targets and meet them in the conventional (boring) way. Instead, Tesla determines that he and his crew will burn the midnight oil in the way Sir Isaac Newton did to achieve greatness in science as much as possible.
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Tesla owners almost crashes on video trying to recreate fatal Autopilot accident
Tesla and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are both investigating the fatal accident involving a Model X Autopilot in Mountain View last month, but now another Tesla owner also conducted his own little investigation into the accident by following a similar scenario on Autopilot and almost crashed on video by doing so.
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