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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jun 23, 2025
After years of anticipation and bold pronouncements from CEO Elon Musk, Tesla’s highly-touted (or tooted) robotaxi service has officially commenced operations in a limited, invite-only capacity in Austin. Not only that, Tesla is gambling...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Mar 20, 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued another Tesla recall. This time, it involves nearly every Cybertruck on the road over a poorly attached cant panel. The panel has been found to detach and/or completely...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Dec 20, 2024
Tesla's ongoing quality control woes continue with new reports that its semi-autonomous driving hardware on some brand new vehicles is failing, which in turn disables Autopilot, cameras, GPS, navigation, and related active safety systems...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Aug 20, 2024
Tesla wants to pay humans up to $48 an hour to suit up in a motion capture suit to help train its Optimus humanoid robot. Candidates need to be able to walk 7+ hours a day while carrying up to 30lbs, and need to be within a certain height...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Aug 07, 2024
The first reported driver fatality tied to a Tesla Cybertruck occurred on Monday in the Baytown area of Houston, Texas. Upon veering off the road and crashing into a culvert, the truck burst into flames, trapping and killing the driver...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Jul 31, 2024
Upon sifting through more than 200 Tesla Autopilot-related crashes, a leading news agency has found a common thread that has led to serious injuries and fatalities. While driver error is usually to blame, the report showed that Tesla's...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jun 03, 2024
Tesla does a lot of things right, but when it comes to safety and recalls, the much-envied automaker also leads the pack. We're sure it's not a statistic it revels in, but the fact is, it's only June and so far Tesla tops the charts with...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, May 08, 2024
It’s unclear whether it is intentional or not, but Tesla Cybertruck owners continue to prove themselves not the sharpest spoons in the knife drawer. We originally thought that wearing an Apple Vision Pro while driving a Cybertruck...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Apr 18, 2024
Tesla has put a brake on new Cybertruck deliveries due to a supposed problem with throttle pedals. There hasn't been an official announcement by the company, but dozens of customers have come forward with similar notices of their truck...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Apr 16, 2024
Tesla just announced sweeping job cuts to its global workforce taking many employees by surprise. More than ten percent of its employees will be laid off effective immediately in a bid to reduce operational costs and boost productivity...
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Nathan Ord - Fri, Mar 08, 2024
Researchers have shown that running a man-in-the-middle attack against a Tesla owner can potentially compromise their account, unlock their car, and ultimately allow threat actors to drive away with it. There are, of coruse, a number a caveats. Much of this hinges on some social engineering...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Feb 15, 2024
Tesla's Cybertruck just can't seem to have a good day, can it? After suffering from numerous delays to get it into production, an inflated final MSRP, and memes about its dystopian looks, its latest problem centers yet again around its...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Jan 24, 2024
Tesla is currently working on plans to make a more affordable electric vehicle codenamed “Redwood,” according to a report in Reuters. The company is hoping to make the car available to customers by mid-2025, and according to sources who...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Dec 13, 2023
As a culmination to a multi-year National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigation, EV manufacturer Tesla is recalling over two million of its Autopilot-equipped vehicles sold in the US. This large-scale summons is meant...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Aug 15, 2023
Tesla is reintroducing the "Standard Range" trims for its popular Model S and Model X models. The new trim costs $10,000 less than before, but they do come with a possible downside, depending on your point of view.
Austin-based EV...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Aug 06, 2023
Some automakers are accelerating towards a future in which certain features sit behind a software paywall, sort of like how microtransactions and DLC work in the PC and console gaming space. Tesla is one of them—for example, Model Y Long...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Aug 02, 2023
Tesla is yet again under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stemming from a dozen customer reports concerning steering issues on select cars.
According to a recent NHTSA filing, a probe has been...
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Chris Goetting - Fri, Apr 07, 2023
An eye-opening report has detailed a privacy-abusing culture among groups of Tesla employees tasked with sensitive data analysis. These employees are alleged to have passed “highly invasive videos and images” from customers’ vehicles...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 31, 2023
There's something oddly ironic about an automaker selling booze but if there's one thing we've learned about Elon Musk over the years, it's that he's willing to don his honey badger hat and buck convention. Hence you can head over to his...
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Lane Babuder - Sat, Dec 24, 2022
Apple's AirPower was announced in 2017. It was designed in such a way that it wouldn't matter where you placed your devices on the AirPower wireless charging mat. In 2019, however, Apple cancelled the project, presumable because the...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Dec 15, 2022
Tesla's major year-end update for select EVs called the 2022 Holiday Update includes support for Steam Games and (drum roll, please) a $350 1TB SSD. Yes, you read it right.
Deemed the "Holiday Update" as far back as 2019, it is Tesla's...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Nov 21, 2022
In a second recall announced within almost a 24-hour period, Tesla Motors is recalling more than 321,000 of their cars. The issue at hand is a possible failure of the rear tail light(s) to illuminate, and affects 2020-2023 Model Y and 2023...
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