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Defective touchscreens remain a core problem. A technical issue that dates back to 2012 continues to haunt Tesla and now the US government is getting involved. Last November, the California-based automaker acknowledged there are serious technical issues involving the Media Control Unit (MCU) touchscreen on the 2012 to 2015 Tesla Model S and Model X. In, short a number of touchscreens began to fail, rendering vehicles almost completely useless. Without working screens, drivers cannot control a v...

The review over sudden unintended acceleration has been closed. No new car or truck is perfect but some are certainly better than others. Take Tesla, for example. The electric vehicle automaker has not only changed the auto industry forever but also altered the automobile itself with its advanced battery-electric powertrains and over-the-air-updates. Safety has been another key area for CEO and co-founder Elon Musk since day one, though systems like Autopilot have hindered that. But when report...

Tesla As the automotive world gradually goes green, Tesla is sticking a finger in as many pies as it can find, and seems to only be growing in popularity - news of high demand needing to be met in the final quarter of 2020 came straight from the CEOs outbox in an email sent to employees, urging them to help increase production in order to meet its 500,000-unit annual target. It seems the automaker has been hard at work during the tail-end of 2020, with Full Self-Driving software being teste...

New-and-improved versions of the Tesla Model S and X could be right around the corner. Teslas original family passenger vehicle, the Tesla Model S, hasnt had a serious overhaul since the 2016 model year. Thats when it received a restyled front fascia without the black faux-grille panel and began picking up new features like Autopilot 2.0 with Enhanced Summon, and later, Sentry Mode. But recently, a number of observers have picked up on indications that a new overhaul could be coming to Teslas f...

Tesla In his investigations, the user who simply goes by green claims that Model S and X vehicles with firmware 2020.48 and up now have the allowance for something referred to as "service key". Its the same field in the coding used on the 3 and Y for phone keys and key cards, but the space where this code is found was previously empty for the larger pair of Tesla EVs. His digging revealed that the code is identical across all models and appears to be hardcoded. It cant be removed, either, a...

And it wont be cheap. Tesla is proceeding with its Full Self-Driving software at neck-snapping speed. The automaker has been rolling out the technology for the past several months to a select group of owners with confirmed safety records. The system accumulates massive amounts of data from those beta testers in order to, among other things, guarantee safety. Needless to say, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been and continues to monitor this very closely. Tesla CEO Elon Mu...