I wrote about the new Minnesota pedestrian death, and then the new California pedestrian death, so now here’s the news from NY to bring it all together for 2024. A Tesla taxi mowed down a pedestrian while “on autopilot” in a busy New York City street Thursday night, the driver has claimed. This crash is … Continue reading NY Tesla Taxi Autopilot Kills Pedestrian→
Definitely not a safe car to be in or around at any time. The crash happened just after 8 a.m. off Gulf Lab Road, near the intersection of Freeport Road and Route 910. Police said the car, a Tesla, traveled at a high rate of speed across the parking lot of a Primanti Bros. restaurant … Continue reading PA Tesla Kills One. Police Stumped Why→
Another day, another Tesla catastrophically plowed itself into a wall in Pennsylvania. A Tesla sedan smashed into a South Philadelphia building [at South 18th and Snyder streets] early Monday, leaving cinderblocks scattered on the ground and the air bags deployed in the car on New Year’s Day. In related Texas news, police say a driver … Continue reading Teslas Start Off New Year by Crashing Into Buildings, Again and Again→
The 2013 Tesla future-leaning hot-take sales pitches — the promise that rapidly throwing AI into cars magically would solve all dangers of driving — have been declared an official flop. As if we couldn’t already tell by 2016 it would make safety worse, given security analysis of the first Autopilot fatalities. Mounting safety tragedies including … Continue reading Every Tesla Recalled Due to High and Rising “Autopilot” Crashes→