The exit interview for the head of the NHTSA highlights their new road robot regulation program idea launched last June. We’re also considering a new program called AV STEP. That would combine the opportunity for manufacturers to deploy automated vehicles with a process that would allow NHTSA significant access to information about redundancy and safety … Continue reading NHTSA Promotes New “AV STEP” Program to Monitor Road Robots →

Tesla fraudulently boasts that if it can remotely update its cars it shouldn’t be called a recall. This is illogical, because the term recall refers to the severity of the flaw, not the delivery mode. Moreover, a severe lack of ethics and quality control means Tesla has been making their products far worse instead of … Continue reading Tesla Recall Failed: FSD Maybe Even Worse, Ignores Stop Signs and Pedestrians →

Update: “Motor Mouth Arabia” has copied this post, republishing it as their own through AI generated copy edits. Also copied here, whatever ZBR is supposed to mean. Ontario, Canada: September 22. This seems like yet another case of Tesla software failing to see children and stop signs. Halton police pulled over a Tesla that allegedly … Continue reading Police Stop Tesla Threat to Children: Blowing Through School Stop Signs Flashing Red →

The robot revolution began long ago, and so did the killing. One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined that it was not going fast enough. And so twenty-five-year-old Robert Williams was asked to climb into a storage rack to help move things along. The one-ton robot … Continue reading On Robots Killing People →