If they’re willing to pay.Virgin Galactic will let people hop to the front of the line for tickets If I can afford it, I am determined to hop on one of Virgin Galactic’s tourist spaceflights — ruining my carbon footprint for the rest of my life, I guess. If…
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Month: February 2020
NTSB blasts Tesla, CalTrans, and NHTSA for Autopilot death
17 with 14 posters participating On Monday, the National Transportation Safety Board met to discuss its investigation into the March 2018 crash that killed Tesla owner Walter Huang. The hearing followed a recent release of a trove of documents related to the…
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How Tesla failed to maintain a huge lead in residential solar, and why Elon Musk is unlikely to win it back
Just five years ago, a Silicon Valley company founded by two of Elon Musk’s cousins ruled rooftop solar. In 2015, SolarCity controlled more than a third of the market for residential solar and installed a whopping 870 megawatts, according to the research fi…
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Tesla Autopilot crash driver died “playing video game”
Tesla calls it Autopilot, but it didn’t help Walter Huang’s Model X avoid the crash that killed him. Huang was playing a video game on his phone, according to a report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board, which is why he didn’t notice it speedi…
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Regulators suspend EasyMile’s self-driving shuttle trial after minor accident
When it comes to accidents involving self-driving vehicles, the rules seem to be fuzzy, and recent actions by U.S. regulators arent likely to clarify things. Case in point: On Tuesday, an autonomous shuttle built by Frances EasyMile and being tested in Colum…
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