Car Manufacturers Betrayed Customers By Sharing Location Without Warrant -- After Some Pledged Not To

#News #privacy #cars #automotive #automobiles #EV #Toyota #Hyundai #Nissan #Subaru #Volkswagen #BMW #Mazda #Mercedes #Kia #Volvo #GPS #geolocation #location #tracking

https://www.pcmag.com/news/senators-car-companies-are-giving-location-data-to-police-without-a-warrant

This is truly one of the more baffling decisions I’ve seen in a long time. Tesla is a leader in charging infrastructure, to the degree that virtually every other carmaker is even adopting its standard.

Then Elon Musk laid off the entire Supercharger team.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145621/tesla-layoff-supercharger-ev-charging-nacs-elon-musk

#tesla #elonmusk #tech #cars #evs

Tesla layoffs hit Supercharger team just as it’s poised to take over EV charging

Tesla has laid off most of the employees who worked for the company’s EV charging teams, leaving many to wonder whether it was poised to lose ground on Superchargers.

^{Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)}

Elon Musk is betting Tesla’s future on using self-driving fantasies to boost the share price instead of building a real car business. He just gutted the teams working on the Supercharger network (right as other companies are adopting it!) and new vehicles.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on-superchargers-new-vehicles/

#tech #tesla #elonmusk #evs #cars

Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Tesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.

^{Ars Technica}

In Vox, I explained how federal policy encourages car bloat, making American vehicles more enormous, polluting, and dangerous than they'd otherwise be.

That's the exact opposite of what we should be doing.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

#cars #safety #policy

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving has been linked to hundreds of crashes and dozens of deaths, according to a federal investigation published today.

“In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023,” reports @theverge. “Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which ‘the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.’ These crashes, which were often the most severe, resulted in 14 deaths and 49 injuries.”

https://flip.it/Qr4Zi3

#Tesla #AutoPilot #Cars #Tech

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths

NHTSA published its findings into crashes linked to Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD. The agency found that driver inattention and inadequate technology contributed to most of the incidents.

^{Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)}

I think Toyota was right all along.

It’s an unpopular opinion among EV purists, but I think hybrids will reduce a lot more carbon emissions than BEVs, for the simple reason that way more people can switch. Even without access to charging outlets, hybrids are far more efficient thanks to their regenerative braking. With access to outlets, they are as good as EVs within their electric range, which will account for most of the daily commutes of their owners, and all with far smaller batteries and better costs of ownership than BEVs.

The way to eliminate emissions due to personal transportation is not to put people in BEVs. It’s to *eliminate commutes* and massively invest in (electrified) public transportation.

#ev #bev #hybrids #phev #cars #transportation

“Hybrid vs. Electric Cars: Why Hybrids Make More Sense”

https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/hybrid-vs-electric-why-hybrids-make-more-sense/

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Tesla has to recall every Cybertruck it’s shipped. There are only 3,878 of them.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-accelerator-pedal-stuck/

#tesla #tech #cybertruck #cars

The editors of Scientific American have written an opinion piece saying we need to move away from #cars to #activetransport because of local & carbon #pollution, road crash death & injury and how it restricts access to life for so many- the young, the elderly, the poor & disabled.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

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Nice response by #mkbhd to the self-entitled techbros who think they should be given slack for bad products.

“Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies?”

#technology #reviews #cars #fisker #humane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA

Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies?

Let's talk about reviewsMKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.comTech I'm using right now: https://www.amazon.com/shop/MKBHDPlaylist of MKBHD Intro music: https://g...

^YouTube

Prototype.

#AIart #MidJourneyArt #MidjourneyAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MastoArt #FediArt #Art #Artist #GenerativeArt #GenerativeAI #Midjourney #Car #Cars

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Boom.

“Tesla lays off ‘more than 10%’ of its global workforce”

#tesla #cars #ev

https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/tesla-lays-off-more-than-10-of-its-global-workforce/

Tesla lays off ‘more than 10%’ of its global workforce

The layoffs were announced in a company-wide email, after rumors they could reach as high as 20% of Tesla's ~140,000 global headcount.

^{Jameson Dow (Electrek)}

Here it comes

#tesla #cars #ev

Tesla (TSLA) is rumored to be preparing a massive round of layoffs

https://electrek.co/2024/04/14/tesla-rumor-massive-round-layoffs/

Tesla (TSLA) is rumored to be preparing a massive round of layoffs

Tesla announced to Gigafactory Texas employees that it will shorten Cybertruck production shift amid rumors that it is preparing a...

^{Fred Lambert (Electrek)}

Car ownership.

#cars #money #finances

EVs are losing their steam.

I'd argue that part of why EVs aren't selling well is that EV makers are making too many expensive luxury vehicles and not enough mainstream vehicles.

#ev #cars

Tesla FSD (Full Shit Driving).

https://werd.io/2024/i-tried-tesla-fsd

#tesla #fsd #cars

I tried Tesla FSD

Some screaming was involved

^{Werd I/O}

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This is hilarious.

#cars #lamborghini

Wait until she finds out what websites know about her surfing habits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiYa0G_SpA

#privacy #gm #cars #onstar

Is your car spying on you? This is what one woman said happened to her

A woman learned her OnStar system is tracking things like acceleration events, high-speed events, and hard break events and GM has been sharing that data wit...

^YouTube

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