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Tesla pushes ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ to investor with poor ‘safety score’ while requiring perfect score from others

Tesla has pushed its “Full Self-Driving Beta” to an investor who had a terrible “safety driving score” based on the automaker’s own scoring system. It comes as Tesla says that it is only pushing the software to owners who scored 100 out of 100. Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta (FSD) enables Tesla vehicles to virtually drive themselves both on highways and…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 14, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Tesla officially launches its insurance using ‘real-time driving behavior’, starting in Texas

Tesla has now officially launched its insurance product using “real-time driving behavior”. The product is only available in Texas for now. The automaker has already introduced its own insurance product in California, but it doesn’t utilize real-time driving data and its “safety score”. At Tesla’s shareholders meeting last week, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla would expand its…
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Tesla app update adds widgets, Powerwall features, hints at remote live view from Autopilot cameras

Tesla has released a new mobile app update with a few new small features, but it also shows that the automaker has made some progress toward delivering a remote live view from Autopilot cameras on your car. The new update, v4.2, introduces new bigger widgets to iOS and some new Powerwall features Improvements to larger iOS widget to include quick controls Solar and Powerwall supports…
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Tesla Model 3 is now the quickest-selling used car and sometimes even sells for higher price than new

The Tesla Model 3 is now considered the best-selling used car in the US, and it is so popular that it even sometimes sells for higher prices than new. The current chip shortage affecting the auto industry has trickled down to the used car market. It can be so difficult to get a new car due to limited production that many have turned to the used car market, and inventories are now low there…
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