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New Autopilot Lawsuits Raise Crucial Questions About Defect and Limitation Boundaries
New Autopilot Lawsuits Raise Crucial Questions About Defect and Limitation Boundaries

30 Aug 2023, 09:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / What if the people who died using Tesla's ADAS were given the responsibility to oversee a system that does not provide them with enough time to react?

 
What's Behind Tesla's Massive FSD Recall? The Answer is EA22-002
What's Behind Tesla's Massive FSD Recall? The Answer is EA22-002

16 Feb 2023, 23:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It was not Tesla that decided to recall its vehicles: NHTSA ordered it as a result of the engineering analysis the safety agency launched in June 2022

 
Elon Musk Dictated Disclaimer in the 2016 Autopilot Video That Was Staged
Elon Musk Dictated Disclaimer in the 2016 Autopilot Video That Was Staged

20 Jan 2023, 11:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In internal emails, Musk told employees he would be clear that the footage was a future perspective for the system, not its reality at the time.

 
Tesla Engineer Tells Court That Autopilot Video With Car Driving Itself Was Staged
Tesla Engineer Tells Court That Autopilot Video With Car Driving Itself Was Staged

17 Jan 2023, 19:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We wrote about that allegation in December 2021 after a New York Times story first revealed that was the case with 19 Tesla employees

 
Police Stop Tesla Driver Who Slept on an Autobahn at 68 MPH on Autopilot
Police Stop Tesla Driver Who Slept on an Autobahn at 68 MPH on Autopilot

30 Dec 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The dangerous situation happened on the A70 near Bamberg on December 28. The 45-year-old driver was heading to Bayreuth and lost his driver’s license.

 
Tesla Driver Assistance System-Related Crashes Have Already Resulted in 19 Deaths
Tesla Driver Assistance System-Related Crashes Have Already Resulted in 19 Deaths

16 Nov 2022, 10:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The latest data batch revealed two more deaths, which add to the 16 NHTSA learned of since July 2021. There were three others before that

 
Tesla Is Also Being Probed by the U.S. SEC for Possibly Misleading Investors About FSD
Tesla Is Also Being Probed by the U.S. SEC for Possibly Misleading Investors About FSD

27 Oct 2022, 22:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would investigate exaggerated claims about Tesla’s ADAS from shareholders' perspective

 
KBA Clarifies What Abnormalities It Found on Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot
KBA Clarifies What Abnormalities It Found on Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot

22 Sep 2022, 10:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to the market surveillance authority, Navigate on Autopilot could not enter or leave motorways without driver authorization.

 
Tesla Influencers Try to Present FSD as Safe While Almost Hitting a Cyclist
Tesla Influencers Try to Present FSD as Safe While Almost Hitting a Cyclist

9 Feb 2022, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After the embarrassing and dangerous episode, they laugh, and one of them asks the other: “Are we going to have to cut that?”

 
AV Safety Expert Proposes a New Classification for Autonomy Levels
AV Safety Expert Proposes a New Classification for Autonomy Levels

7 Feb 2022, 19:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to Philip Koopman, the SAE J3016 standard puts autonomous driving in an engineering perspective that is not helpful for drivers.

 
Tesla Issues Second Recall Connected to FSD – Now It Has to Do With Rolling Stops
Tesla Issues Second Recall Connected to FSD – Now It Has to Do With Rolling Stops

1 Feb 2022, 11:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NHTSA discussed rolling stops under the FSD modes Average and Assertive with the EV maker, and it decided to cut that functionality from its cars

 
Dawn Project Fires at Tesla FSD: AV Software Must Be the Best, Not the Worst
Dawn Project Fires at Tesla FSD: AV Software Must Be the Best, Not the Worst

17 Jan 2022, 10:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With a campaign titled “Don’t Be a Tesla Crash Test Dummy,” the project is offering $10,000 for anyone that proves there’s worse software than FSD around

 
Shocking Footage Shows What Happens When Tesla Autopilot Fails
Shocking Footage Shows What Happens When Tesla Autopilot Fails

21 Dec 2021, 17:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The hacker GreenTheOnly shared it on Twitter, and it revealed that the vehicle was in NoP (Navigate on Autopilot) until the very end

 
Tesla Owners, Face It: You Are Not Testing Full Self-Driving
Tesla Owners, Face It: You Are Not Testing Full Self-Driving

21 Dec 2021, 13:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This is what Mahmood Hikmet warns in his latest video, the first of a series that will discuss Tesla’s dangerous approach toward autonomous driving.

 
Consumer Reports Analyzes Automation in Cars, Suggests Ways to Make It Safer
Consumer Reports Analyzes Automation in Cars, Suggests Ways to Make It Safer

6 Nov 2021, 08:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Overreliance is just one of the issues the consumer organization thinks need to be addressed in ADAS; naming and standards also risk safety.

 
After FSD Almost Causes Head-On Collision, AV Specialist Asks NHTSA to Stop Tesla
After FSD Almost Causes Head-On Collision, AV Specialist Asks NHTSA to Stop Tesla

1 Nov 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Philip Koopman argues that the excuse of no FSD deaths is only valid until someone gets killed while testing the beta software

 
Tesla Hacker Wants Company to Be Upfront About FSD Hardware Promises
Tesla Hacker Wants Company to Be Upfront About FSD Hardware Promises

31 Oct 2021, 08:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jason Hughes showed that Tesla promises that all its EVs had all the hardware they needed for Full Self-Driving date back from October 2016.

 
Waymo Pokes Tesla on Twitter, Makes Fun of Common Autopilot Mistake
Waymo Pokes Tesla on Twitter, Makes Fun of Common Autopilot Mistake

28 Oct 2021, 23:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company said it is leveraging its custom-built sensors so that WaymoDriver doesn’t accidentally take the moon for a traffic light…

 
Engineer Wants to Stop Autonomous Driving Mess, Explains Basic Concepts
Engineer Wants to Stop Autonomous Driving Mess, Explains Basic Concepts

21 Sep 2021, 13:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After discussing if Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving is correct or responsible, Mahmood Hikmet explains the technology’s basic concepts.

 
After Fatal Crash, Nio Demands Owners to Take a Test Before Using NOP
After Fatal Crash, Nio Demands Owners to Take a Test Before Using NOP

24 Aug 2021, 17:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The idea would not be new: Xpeng would be already asking its customers to take a test to prove they can deal with NGP (Navigation Guided Pilot).