[ad_1] The good news continued on Wednesday when the company released its Q4 2019 earnings and 2020 financial forecast. Thanks to a quick turnaround in building its Shanghai Gigafactory, which was completed in just 10 months, Tesla can now focus on ramping up production of its new crossover SUV, the Model Y, at its existing […]
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Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products
[ad_1] Google’s Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRP) have been around since 2010, designed to reward researchers for discovering bugs and flaws that Google might have missed. The initiative has expanded steadily since then to cover its other products, including Chrome and Android, and last year the company extended its Google Play security reward arm to include […]
Senator calls on Tesla to make Autopilot safety changes
[ad_1] The senator also wanted Tesla to implement “backup monitoring systems” beyond the steering wheel torque monitor that checks for hands on the wheel. That would keep at least one system checking for driver attentiveness, and might reduce the chances of someone tricking Autopilot into staying active. At present, Autopilot will warn you if your […]
Tesla update leaks some upcoming changes for Model S, Model X
[ad_1] due to FW timing. Tesla seemed to have realized no matter what they do stuff leaks through firmware so froze releases on week 40 and just backported absolute necessary stuff to limit leakageAnd now past the new year this must be hw they put into cars now/vsoon so cannot avoid it — green (@greentheonly) […]
Tesla says unintended acceleration claims are ‘completely false’
[ad_1] The firm added that it was “transparent” with the NHTSA, and regularlyshared complaints of unintended acceleration with the agency. It shared the “majority” of the complaints from the petition and found no faults. This doesn’t appear to address every report of surprise acceleration, some of which are baffling if true — a Model 3 […]
Tesla cars will soon talk to pedestrians
[ad_1] This may be out of the reach of many older Tesla cars, and it’s not certain if you’ll get to either speak directly to people outside or send automated speech (say, to warn that you’re backing up). It could still be helpful both for convenience and as a safety measure, though. You could alert […]
Tesla’s car shipments grew by 50 percent last year
[ad_1] In the fourth quarter alone, Tesla broke its records by producing almost 105,000 vehicles and delivering 112,000 vehicles. Much of that success can be attributed to the Model 3 sedan’s popularity. In Q4, Tesla delivered 92,500 Model 3s — a 46 percent increase over the final quarter of 2018 — and 19,450 Model S/X. […]
After Math: Driving into a new decade
[ad_1] The EPFL released a study this week pitching a novel method of drastically reducing the amount of CO2 heavy trucks produce: liquify the combustion byproduct and store it onboard until the trip is done. It’d eliminate all but 10 percent of CO2 produced while only taking up around 7 percent of the vehicle’s total […]
Tesla’s Cybertruck found its way into a Travis Scott music video
[ad_1] It’s not clear how the EVs ended up in Scott’s video. We’ve asked Tesla for comment. There’s a good possibility Scott or the producers have a close connection with Elon Musk, though. He’s one of the very few people to drive the Cybertruck in public, and Musk has been spotted hobnobbing with Scott and […]
The tech CEOs’ year of reckoning
[ad_1] We were blind, and our eyes were opened by zeros and ones. The tech utopia was at hand, and we should just sit back and not ask too many hard questions. Then things went sideways. Social networks that were the catalyst of the Arab Spring were suddenly being used by nation-states, shit posters and […]