road safety

EU mandates advanced safety tech in all new cars sold from Monday

Starting tomorrow, every new passenger car and van sold across the European Union's 27 member states must include a suite of advanced safety technologies under the final implementation phase of the bloc's General Safety Regulation. The deadline marks the culmination…

Tesla shared misleading FSD safety data with EU regulators, Reuters finds

Tesla has submitted self-reported safety statistics to European regulators that independent traffic safety researchers describe as misleading, according to a Reuters investigation published on Sunday, raising new questions about the company's campaign to win continent-wide approval for its Full Self-Driving…

Cheap plastic heads trick Tesla’s Autopilot cameras in China

Just weeks after Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving system in China, a cottage industry of cheap gadgets designed to defeat the car's driver-monitoring cameras has emerged on Chinese e-commerce platforms. For as little as $10, drivers can purchase plastic figurines…