They say it can be easily fitted into existing aircraft. Ghost Plane The military industrial complex strikes again, as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently dropped a new Black Hawk helicopter that can fly with no one inside it. The eerie aircraft is equipped with a new AI from Lockheed Martin dubbed the… Continue reading Welp, DARPA Just Flew a Black Hawk Helicopter with No Pilot
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Tesla Says It’s Updating Self-Driving Cars to No Longer Break the Law
Tesla has agreed to update the software on almost 54,000 of its cars because a recent “Full Self-Driving” software update allowed them to break road rules and roll through stop signs without coming to a full stop. It’s the latest sign that regulators are becoming increasingly fed up of the Elon Musk-led company’s efforts to… Continue reading Tesla Says It’s Updating Self-Driving Cars to No Longer Break the Law
Former Employees Say Elon Musk Was an Absolutely Terrible Boss
He barely kept in touch with the company. Absentee Leadership Leadership at Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup cofounded by Elon Musk, has been an absolute disaster, according to a scathing new report by Fortune. We already wrote about Fortune‘s take on dysfunction at the company. But it sounds like Musk’s own leadership role at Neuralink… Continue reading Former Employees Say Elon Musk Was an Absolutely Terrible Boss
Automotive Lobbying Group Abandons the Term “Self-Driving”
The training wheels are starting to come off. The Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, a Washington, DC-based lobbying group representing a number of auto industry heavyweights, has renamed itself to the “Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association” (AVIA), a notable shift away from the term “self-driving,” The Verge reports. While the group didn’t directly mention Tesla in its… Continue reading Automotive Lobbying Group Abandons the Term “Self-Driving”
Tesla Employee Dies After Collapsing on Assembly Line
This happened just a month after a shooting occurred at the very same plant. The Latest Tragedy A Tesla factory worker has died on the assembly line at the electric carmakers’ Fremont assembly line. As The Mercury News reports, the still-unidentified male Tesla employee was pronounced dead on the scene after the Fremont Fire Department… Continue reading Tesla Employee Dies After Collapsing on Assembly Line
Tesla Is Apparently Delaying the Disastrous Cybertruck Another Year
A watched pot never boils. Expect Delays To the surprise of literally no one, Tesla is delaying the release of its Cybertruck until at least 2023. An anonymous whistleblower has told Reuters that production has been pushed until early 2023, because Tesla is still trying to trick out the Cybertruck enough to make it more competitive.… Continue reading Tesla Is Apparently Delaying the Disastrous Cybertruck Another Year
Startup Says Its Solar Upgrade for Teslas Adds 60 Miles in Range per Day
A startup called EV Solar Kits is working on a photovoltaic upgrade package for Tesla vehicles that it says will cost just $5,000 and add up to 60 miles of range per day. “There’s so many pain points that EV owners have, whether it’s range anxiety or lifestyle aversion,” cofounder Steele Wasik told Futurism. “There’s… Continue reading Startup Says Its Solar Upgrade for Teslas Adds 60 Miles in Range per Day
Tesla Drives 750 Miles With Upgraded Battery
Double the kilowatt-hours in the “same space as the original battery.” Battery Park Michigan-based startup Our Next Energy (ONE) installed a new battery in a Tesla Model S — and it says the upgrade allowed the vehicle to cover an astonishing 752 miles on a single charge. The startup installed a much higher capacity battery… Continue reading Tesla Drives 750 Miles With Upgraded Battery
Tesla Forced to Recall Almost Half a Million Cars
That’s almost as many cars as it delivered in 2020! Production Reduction Electric automaker Tesla recalled almost as many cars on Thursday as it delivered in 2020, according to Bloomberg. The outlet reports that Tesla recalled as many as 475,000 cars in the US because of rear camera and trunk issues. Around 356,309 are Model… Continue reading Tesla Forced to Recall Almost Half a Million Cars
Elon Musk Fans Furious That He Posted Antivax Meme
Image by Getty / Futurism Tesla’s mercurial, meme-loving CEO Elon Musk angered a ton of the his fans when he tweeted an anti-vaxxer meme last week. Musk’s pixelated tweet shows two characters. One has been injected with a ludicrous number of what are presumably COVID-19 shots, and is wearing a mask, with a QR code on their… Continue reading Elon Musk Fans Furious That He Posted Antivax Meme