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The U.S. government’s highway safety agency says Tesla is telling drivers in public statements that its vehicles can drive themselves. That conflicts with owners manuals that say the vehicles need human supervision.

Tesla says its vehicles that are equipped with the latest versions of its vaunted “Full Self-Driving” system can travel from point to point with little human intervention. Yet a series of alarming recent incidents have drawn the attention of federal regulators, who were already investigating Tesla’s automated driving systems because of dozens of crashes that raised safety concerns. The problems...

A Tesla vehicle in Full-Self Driving mode appeared to fail to detect a moving train and stop on its own, leading to a chaotic accident depicted in a video that has been viewed millions of times on social media. 

The shareholder group said in a letter to shareholders that ratification of Musk’s pay package would do nothing to promote Tesla’s long-term growth and stability.

The suit claims that the company’s marketing of the technology is dangerously misleading.

Investigators with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have concerns about whether the recall remedy worked because Tesla has reported 20 crashes since it was issued in December.

The starting prices were reduced for the Model Y, S and X. Earlier this week Tesla announced layoffs and a recall of nearly 4,000 of its Cybertrucks.

Tesla is recalling more than 3,000 of its 2024 Cybertrucks because of the possibility that a pedal can get stuck and cause the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash.

The eclectic car company said it agreed to settle the case in order to “end years of litigation.”

Tesla has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company’s semi-autonomous driving software.

The lawyers who represented Tesla shareholders in the case asked the presiding judge to award them company stock.

The factory near Berlin, which makes Model Y vehicles and batteries, will pause production from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11.

Factory workers at Tesla have been told to expect pay raises this year. That move that comes as the United Auto Workers union tries to organize the electric vehicle maker’s U.S. plants.

A Florida man was arrested this week after allegedly planning to commit a “mass casualty event” at Tesla headquarters in Texas during a Cybertruck promotion attended by Elon Musk, prosecutors said.

The truck is aimed at the most profitable part of the U.S. auto market that’s now controlled mainly by Ford, General Motors and Ram truck maker Stellantis.

Federal prosecutors have expanded investigations into Tesla beyond the electric vehicle maker’s partially automated driving systems, and they have issued subpoenas for information instead of simply requesting it.

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Elon Musk and on-again, off-again girlfriend Grimes are parents of three children, not two as previously believed, according to an upcoming biography about the Tesla CEO.

A federal judge in Boston has sentenced a wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million insider trading scheme that relied on stolen company earnings information hacked through U.S. computer networks.

In a July letter to Tesla, the agency says it’s concerned that more drivers will activate the Autopilot driver-assist system, leading to more driver inattention.