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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says this new probe is looking at instances when FSD was engaged when it was foggy or a lot of dust was in the air, or even when glare from the sun blinded the car’s cameras and this caused a problem.
While this is par for the course with Tesla events—the company abhors deadlines of any sort, especially those its sets itself—at least part of the delay appears to be due to a medical emergency in the crowd, according to Elon Musk's X account.
Krzysztof Czarnecki, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo and a member of SAE task forces for automated driving said that a Tesla Robotaxi with its current set of hardware and software “would cause mayhem and accidents and [the cars] will disappear very quickly from the road.”
While Tesla is certainly shifting its core focus away from electric cars towards artificial intelligence and robotics, a new report suggests that battery development for its next-generation models and the Robotaxi is underway in full swing at the company.
With its second-quarter earnings report, Tesla announced that it entered validation testing of its very first dry cathode 4680 cells in July.
The whole buying process is described at length in the one-hour Out of Spec Reviews video embedded at the top of this page, starting with finding the car and continuing with driving many hours to the Ford dealership that listed it for sale, inspecting it at 10 pm under the street lights and discovering a few faults, including a low coolant error.
As part of China’s strict system of capital controls, Beijing requires companies to get government approval for overseas direct investment above a certain threshold, which is typically an arduous and months-long bureaucratic process.
Also, it’s worth noting that Tesla’s so-called “Full Self-Driving” still needs to be constantly supervised by the person behind the steering wheel and that it’s considered a Level 2 system on the SAE chart, meaning that the driver is responsible for what the car does on the road.