Tesla loses bid to overturn Louisiana’s ban on direct car sales

Reuters, June 16, 2023

Florida bans direct-to-consumer auto sales but leaves carve-out for Tesla

CBS News, June 16, 2023

Volvo CEO Jim Rowan on the Toughest Challenge Facing Automakers

Time, June 18, 2023

Since the early 1970s, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has collected crash data to evaluate traffic safety issues such as driver performance, crash worthiness, and the effects of new technologies on crash amelioration. As part of this mandate, the Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS) collects and disseminates real-world crash data relating to primary causation factors and their related injury outcome.

Mercedes-Benz Gets Approval to Sell Level 3 Self-Driving Cars in California

Road & Track, July 9, 2023

What Tesla charging partnerships with Ford and GM mean for the EV industry

CNBC, July 9, 2023

US tells automakers not to comply with Massachusetts vehicle data law

Reuters, July 13, 2023

NHTSA planning to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles

The Hill, May 31, 2023

California lawmakers and AV industry battle for future of self-driving trucks

TechCrunch, May 31, 2023

Cruise Robotaxi Gets Stuck In The Middle Of An Intersection, Elon Musk Replies

InsideEVs, June 6, 2023

In our last state privacy law update, posted just over a month ago, we noted that “there is momentum in the data privacy space.” That may have been an understatement. Since then, governors in three states—Indiana, Montana, and Tennessee—have signed comprehensive data privacy acts into law. This brings the total number of states with such laws on the books to nine, and Texas appears poised to make the number an even ten.

Ford Will Use Tesla EV Charging, but That’s Only Part of the Story

Car and Driver, May 26, 2023

Tesla leak reportedly shows thousands of Full Self-Driving safety complaints

The Verge, May 25, 2023

Self-driving delivery trucks are already on North Texas highways. How safe are they?

Fort Worth Star Telegram, May 30, 2023

U.S. has 'real concern' about Tesla Autopilot driver interaction

Reuters, May 23, 2023

Crash factor: Adding ethical considerations into autonomous vehicles

Digital Journal, May 21, 2023

Waymo, Uber set aside past rift to team up on self-driving taxis in Phoenix

PBS, May 23, 2023

FSD Takes to the Back Roads at Highway Speeds

In an exclusive interview with CNBC this past week, Elon Musk predicted that Tesla will have a “Chat GPT moment” within the next year when millions of cars “suddenly ... will be able to drive themselves with no one.”

Tesla shouldn’t call driving system Autopilot because humans are still in control, Buttigieg says

Associated Press, May 11, 2023

Tesla owners sue over battery software update impact

The Hill, May 12, 2023

Tesla wins big direct sales Supreme court case

Electrek, May 16, 2023

Global EV sales are expected to surpass 73 million units in 2040, up from around 2 million in 2020, according to forecasts by Goldman Sachs Research. A recent report published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) similarly forecasts considerable growth in the sector, predicting that more than 50% of U.S. car sales will be EV models by 2030.