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Is your Tesla car spying on you?
Driver-facing camera Tesla cars are equipped with driver facing cameras that are positioned on the rear view mirror of the vehicle. Tesla customers have enquired as to what this camera is for and the company founder, Elon Musk assured drivers back in April 2020 that the camera was “not turned on” and only “meant for vandalism monitoring in a robotaxi...
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Germany will have self-driving cars on the roads in 2022
Level-4 autonomous self-driving vehicles German regulators have given the go-ahead for self-driving autonomous cars on their roads in 2022. There have already been small test projects going on in Hamburg and Berlin. Germany’s lower house of parliament approved the new self-driving rules for self-driving cars. The legislation is now prepared to pass on to the upper chamber or parliament at...
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Green light for self-driving cars on UK motorways
Autonomous cars on UK motorways soon The UK has become the first country in the world to announce that it will regulate the use of autonomous vehicles on UK motorways, albeit, at slow speeds. It won’t be long before British subjects see self-driving cars appear on UK public roads and this could happen as early as this year. The UK...
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Tesla on autopilot crashes into police car as driver watches a movie
Tesla crashes as driver watches movie It seems hard to believe, but we have another Tesla driver who has caused a major collision while they do something stupid and dangerous behind the wheel. Tesla and it’s autonomous technology has suffered another setback because of this incident as the driver naively placed far too much reliance on the present...
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UK close to allowing fully-autonomous cars on motorways
The United Kingdom explores how autonomous technology can be used safely on public roads. The UK’s Department for Transport along with the Center for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles are calling for research and evidence that self-driving vehicles can be driven safely on the road network. They have announced new consultations will focus on bringing autonomous vehicles to UK roads by...
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Irish research group get €4.2m to lead an international study on autonomous cars
Irish researchers to get €4.2m to lead an international study on driverless vehicles An Irish research group has been granted €4.2m in funding to lead an international study on the development of driverless cars. The research project group will work with global companies like Jaguar Land Rover and the Kostal Group in autonomous technology. As well as working with major...
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China has dedicated a mountain highway to test self-driving technology
China dedicates a mountain highway to test self-driving cars China has dedicated a stretch of mountain motorway in the Eastern Shandong province to test self-driving vehicle connectivity. This is in an effort to challenge the United States in its autonomous driving technology programmes. A local Chinese Transportation Development Group has taken over a 26-kilometre-long (16 miles) highway for autonomous testing....
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Tesla driver caught in the act
Tesla driver seen on camera sleeping while on autopilot mode A passerby takes footage of a driver sleeping while on autopilot mode in a Tesla. They were shocked to see the driver asleep while driving along a California road. The driver of the vehicle had his arms crossed and not on the steering wheel. At the end of the video,...
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Tesla Model 3 bursts into flames
Electric vehicle bursts into flames after collision with tow truck die as assisted system fails A tesla model 3 has reportedly burst into flames after crashing into a truck in Moscow, with a man and his two children in the vehicle. The incident occurred late on Saturday evening just outside the capital city of Russia. It was reported by the...
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Netflix and Youtube in your Autonomous Tesla
Movies and videos coming to a car near you Tesla will soon offer Netflix and YouTube streaming in all its self-drive cars. When their self-driving models become a reality on the roads, drivers will be able to stream their favourite movies and videos. It is envisioned that in the future, owners of fully-autonomous vehicles will even be able to play...