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NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison said the agency will consider ending steering wheel requirements for fully driverless vehicles, a potential regulatory opening for Tesla's steering-wheel-free Cybercab.
A Tesla Semi slammed into two passenger vehicles stopped at a red light on U.S. 50 in Dayton, Nevada, on Sunday morning, June 28, killing a married couple and leaving a third person with life-threatening injuries. Preliminary statements gathered at the scene suggest the truck driver may have fallen asleep, according to the Lyon County…
The Tesla Model Y is now the most reliable electric vehicle Consumer Reports tracks, the same outlet that named it the only pure EV on its 2026 Top Picks list. For a model that spent its first three years scoring in the 30s on CR’s reliability scale, that is a real turnaround, and it lines…
Two U.S. senators want federal regulators to pull apart the statistics Tesla uses to claim its driver-assistance software is far safer than a human behind the wheel. Senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter on June 16, 2026 to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison, calling…
Tesla's Cybercab cleared EPA certification: front-wheel drive, 219 hp, 326V pack. The 418-mile calculated range needs a caveat before the window sticker.
The outbound lot at Gigafactory Texas held its largest visible batch of production Cybercab units yet on Sunday, June 14, 2026, with the gold-finished robotaxis staged in tight rows along the factory’s west side. A widely shared count from a Tesla observer on X put the tally at a record 102 cars, a figure that…
Tesla widened its unsupervised robotaxi service to cover the entire Austin metropolitan area on Wednesday, more than doubling the operating zone and opening up highway driving on Interstate 35 along with suburbs like Pflugerville and Manor. The company’s official Robotaxi account announced the change on X, and Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software,…
A team led by Dan Burkland posted on X early Sunday that they completed a Cannonball Run from the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in 49 hours and 55 minutes, with their Tesla Model 3 running Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14.3.2 the entire way and zero driver disengagements. If…
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