“Teslas are the safest cars on the road, but most people don’t know that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last year. The superlative is typical of the billionaire, and the automaker itself, which boasts that its vehicles “are engineered to be the safest in the world.” …
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Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind the dystopian sci-fi opus Blade Runner 2049, is suing Elon Musk, Warner Bros. Discovery and Tesla over part of an Oct. 10 presentation to unveil the car maker’s designs for hypothetical future products, including an self-driving “cybercab.” The much-hyped event, which also included plans …
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For Tesla‘s latest high-profile event, Elon Musk wanted the Hollywood treatment. On Thursday night, the CEO unveiled a prototype of the auto manufacturer’s “robotaxi” at the “We, Robot” event in Warner Bros. Discovery movie studio lot in Burbank, California. The vehicle is intended to be fully autonomous, with no human …
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On Thursday, Tesla will at last reveal its prototype for a fully autonomous “robotaxi,” a vehicle that CEO Elon Musk had originally wanted to unveil in August and envisions as the future of the brand. Certain investors and tech entrepreneurs are extremely skeptical that the company can pull off such …
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Tyler, the Creator proved there’s nothing wrong with treating one’s art as a living, breathing, mutable thing that never needs to be set in stone or encased forever in wax, especially as the artist grows, changes, and improves as a human. He did this by… cussing out Elon Musk while …
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When the “Full Self-Driving” setting is enabled in a Tesla, according to the automaker’s own description, the car “attempts to drive to your destination by following curves in the road, stopping at and negotiating intersections, making left and right turns, navigating roundabouts, and entering/exiting highways.” “Attempts” would be the crucial …
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Back in April 2019, during a presentation on Tesla’s progress toward a fully autonomous driving system, Elon Musk made a startling prediction: “Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road,” he said. What the CEO meant was that Teslas sold with a “Full Self-Driving” …
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Tesla’s stock crashed this week following the announcement that the electric vehicle company would be laying off 10 percent of its staff. If things weren’t already looking grim for Elon Musk’s flagship company, it was just ordered to recall nearly 4,000 of its recently released Cybertrucks over an accelerator pedal …
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As anticipated by industry observers, Tesla on Monday announced that it was was laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce, shedding around 14,000 jobs worldwide. CEO Elon Musk announced the cuts in a memo to the entire company, writing that they “will enable us to be lean, innovative, …
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On the eve of a trial over the death of 38-year-old Apple engineer Walter Huang, who died in 2018 when his Model Xhit a highway barrier, Tesla settled the lawsuit on Monday, Bloomberg reported. The electric car company avoided what could have been a lengthy jury trial over its controversial …
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