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An official for the National Transportation Safety Board addressed Tesla’s plans to expand its semi-autonomous driving technology. Jennifer Homendy, chair of the NTSB, told the Wall Street Journal that the automaker needs to tackle “basic safety issues” before it expands features like Autopilot and Full Self-Driving to more parts of the road. “Basic safety issues have to be addressed before […]
Lyft and Uber announced Friday that they will cover the legal fees of any driver who is sued under Texas’ recently-enacted abortion law. The disastrous legislation, which went into effect this week, allows private citizens to file civil suits and collect damages against anyone aiding an abortion. As a result, ride-share drivers who perform drop-offs or pick-ups at abortion […]
While speaking with Reuters about the future of self-driving cars, Nobel Prize winner Akira Yoshino revealed that he expects Apple to lead the next generation of electric vehicle batteries. According to Yoshino, he predicts the tech giant will announce the Apple Car as soon as this year. “Tesla has their own independent strategy. The one to look out for […]
A crazy video from the Albanian capital of Tirana shows a busted up car driving around erratically through a public square while pedestrians frantically try to get the driver behind the wheel to cut the shit. Shortly into said video (hint, hint up top) a good Samaritan jumps into the driver’s side window feet first, […]
Here’s one to file under ‘the least you can do.’ A couple who was issued a $166 ticket after crashing their car into a median to avoid a couch that jumped from another driver’s truck to the interstate will get a recommendation from the Florida Highway Patrol that that ticket be dropped. The single-vehicle accident […]
On Valentine’s Day, delivery driver Chelsea Timmons found herself stranded in Austin amid the brutal winter storm that left a good chunk of Texas without power. Fortunately for her, the driveway she was stuck in belonged to a generous couple, who invited her to stay for several days while they waited for the storm to […]
A Virginia family has returned a pile of cash totaling nearly $1 million after coming across that sum sitting out in the middle of the road. Sounds like somebody’s seen No Country For Old Men. On Saturday afternoon, the Schantz family was driving through the state’s Caroline County when they found a pair of bags stuffed […]
Last month, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp issued an executive order that dropped the formal driving test that had represented the final hurdle teens had to clear to acquire a license. The justification given for that was that it wasn’t possible to maintain social distancing with a driving instructor in your car. Instead, all teens had […]
Under a new executive order given by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, teenagers within the Peach State will no longer need to pass a formal driving test in order to secure a driver’s license. Instead they’ll just have to get the ‘A-okay’ from their parents. Like roughly 80 percent of news these days, this development is […]
The National Transportation Safety Board has determined in its investigation that the man behind the wheel of a Tesla that crashed in California two years ago was playing a video game on his phone at the time of the accident, according to NBC Bay Area. Walter Huang was commuting to his engineering job at Apple on March […]
