SF News Ford Promises Self-Driving Taxis With No Steering Wheels By 2021 Another major player just joined the race to bring self-driving cars to the masses. The Chronicle reports that the CEO of Ford announced yesterday plans to put fully autonomous taxis on the roads
SF News Tesla Bursts Into Flames, Destroyed In Minutes During Test Ride In France Incendie de la #Tesla lundi 15 août 2016 à #Bayonne. Avant l'arrivée des pompiers. Voiture complètement détruite. pic.twitter.com/qT8h6ccFoP— Cédric Faiche (@cedricfaiche) August 15, 2016 In Biarritz, France, a Tesla vehicle
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tesla's Autopilot Can Be Hacked Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Hackers can, in fact, fool Tesla’s autopilot software
SF News Day Around The Bay: Moon Cycles May Affect Earthquakes Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The New York Times just published a good piece
SF News Elon Musk To Consumer Reports: We'll Keep Autopilot Thank You Very Much Consumer Reports today called on Tesla to temporarily suspend its autopilot feature in all of its cars following the May death of an Ohio man who had the feature engaged at the time
SF News Yet Another Tesla Crashes In Autopilot Mode, Company Blames Driver A Montana state trooper reported a troubling Tesla car crash over the weekend, telling the Detroit Free Press that a Model X driver had turned on his car's autopilot system before the vehicle
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
SF News Driver In Fatal Tesla Crash Posted YouTube Videos Of Himself Testing Auto-Pilot Feature Joshua Brown, the 40-year-old Ohio man who was killed in May while his Tesla Model S was in auto-pilot mode, was, like many Tesla owners, a technology enthusiast who enjoyed testing the limits
SF News Man Killed In Self-Driving Tesla Crash News today of a tragic first for electric-car company Tesla, as KRON4 reports that a driver died in a crash that occurred while his vehicle was in autonomous mode. The man was reportedly
Arts & Entertainment Tourists Flocking To Silicon Valley On 21st Century Tech Pilgrimages Would you travel halfway around the world to take a photo in front of the Facebook sign? No? How about the Android mascot? Well, according to The Mercury News, a lot of people
Arts & Entertainment That Time <em>Silicon Valley</em>'s TJ Miller Met (And Embarrassed) Elon Musk TJ Miller, who plays the buffoonish, churlish Erlich Bachmann on HBO's Silicon Valley, has had choice words for the tech industry in the past. "You don't have a sense of humor about yourselves,
SF News Elon Musk Wants To Send You To Mars By 2024 Elon Musk went full-on epistemological at Recode's Codecon conference, suggesting that we might be in a videogame kind of simulation! Wow! This, you might know, is a theory originally posited by Descartes, then
SF News Video Shows Tesla Model S Driver Apparently Asleep At The Wheel, On Autopilot, In Traffic Though it could be faked, and no one has tracked down the driver to confirm, a video surfaced on the site Electrek (via Reddit, of course) appearing to show a man asleep behind
SF News Man Claims Self-Driving Tesla Went 'Rogue,' Self-Crashed A Utah man is asking Tesla to investigate after he claims his Model S drove itself into a parked tractor-trailer. The Fremont manufacturer, meanwhile, rejects the allegation that its self-driving software is to
SF News Elon Musk Hints At Project For Autonomous Mass Transit Option “I don’t want to talk too much about it," billionaire CEO Elon Musk said secretively at a transportation conference in Norway yesterday according to Bloomberg. "I have to be careful what I
SF News Tesla Model 3: Buyers Clamor To Reserve Cars That Won't Be Made Until 2017 When Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes the stage in Los Angeles tonight to introduce a new, more affordable version of his electric car — an unveiling that's being billed as the company's pivotal event,
SF News Video: Watch These Robots Build A Tesla Model X Fremont-based Tesla Motors yesterday released the above video depicting the partial assembly of a Model X, the electric car manufacturer's latest addition to its line of vehicles. Besides just being cool, the short
SF News Radio Flyer Makes Tiny Teslas For CEOs-In-Training Disruptive children will soon have something on which to spend that Bitcoin they've been saving from the Tooth Fairy. For young founders and tech execs to be, Radio Flyer has teamed up with
SF News Video: A Look Inside Tesla's Secretive Fremont Factory Tesla Motors' Fremont factory is huge. At 5.3 million square feet, you need a golf cart to get around. The manufacturing space was purchased by the electric car company in 2010 from
SF News Fat Cat Fight: Elon Musk Cancels 'Rude' Venture Capitalist's Tesla Order All Stewart Alsop wanted was a Tesla Model X, and is that so much for a venture capitalist to ask? No, he didn't want to wait for it, and now he'd better not
SF News Video: Tesla Autopilot Saves Uber Driver From Crash A Seattle Uber driver was saved from what was sure to be a bad accident by his Tesla's autopilot feature when it kicked in and slammed on the brakes — preventing a crash. Dashboard
SF News Tesla Releases Self-Driving Car Software, Still Requires Hands On The Wheel Someday soon, Tesla's autonomous cars will absolutely change the face of transportation. They've done it before: Elon Musk's automaker has already revolutionized technologies for, and not least perceptions of, the electric vehicle. But
SF News New Tesla Model X Equipped With Bioweapon Filtration For The Apocalypse Want to race through a decimated cityscape, Mad Max-style, in your shiny Tesla without fear of being infected by the weaponized virus that has killed off all your friends? You will be able
SF News First Week Of Colbert's 'Late Show' Will Feature Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick by Jack Morse Not content to disrupt the way we move from Point A to Point B, tech CEO's Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick will be disrupting our late-night comedy in the coming
SF News Elon Musk's Ultra-High-Speed 'Hyperloop' Is Getting Built As Test Concept This Year Tesla founder and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will see his fantastical dream of a mode of transportation that floats on air in a steel tube and travels just under the speed of sound
