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Yes, you read correctly. During Tesla’s Q1 earnings call on April 17, Lars Moravy, Tesla’s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, commented onthe recent fatal crash in Texasand proved that Elon Musk’s claims were, well, lies. Musk had claimed via Twitter that Autopilot wasn’t enabled, and that itwouldn’t work on a street without lane lines, as was the case. Your research as a private individual is better than professionals@WSJ! Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled & this car did not purchase FSD....

On Monday the California Highway Patrol (CHP) arrested 25-year-old Param Sharma after he was seen riding in the back of his Tesla Model 3 with no one in the driver’s seat. He was spotted travelling eastbound on I-80 across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toward the city of Oakland, and the incident was reported to CHP via numerous 9-1-1 calls. This was Sharma’s first arrest, but terrifyingly not his first time dangerously relying on the Autopilot to drive the car....

What is the technology stack you need to create fully autonomous vehicles? Companies and researchers are divided on the answer to that question. Approaches to autonomous driving range from just cameras andcomputer visionto a combination of computer vision and advanced sensors. Tesla has been a vocal champion for thepure vision-based approach to autonomous driving, and in this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), its chief AI scientist Andrej Karpathy explained why....

On Thursday Tesla held Tesla AI day. If you were looking for a great big product showcase by the automaker, you’d be left disappointed. Beyond anything else, it was a job fair. Remember those days where you turn up to some event, put on a nametag, and talk to people sitting at tables about why you should work for their company? Well,Tesladid just this following a bunch of presentations. Elon Muskadmitted last month on Twitter:...

Is there ever a week withoutsome kind of fuck up at Tesla? If it was a lesser brand, I’d think it was a ploy for publicity, butthe latest app bug was way too severe for that. Last Friday, the BBCwrotethat about 500 users reported an error on the Tesla app at around 4:40 ET (10:40 CET) that left car owners unable to unlock the doors or start their cars. Since the company has no PR team (Elon sacked them), it was Elon Musk to the rescue....