$110 billion in revenue and
3.9 million production vehicles this year due to the semiconductor shortage.
Ford announced shift reductions and additional downtime for two plants in Michigan and Kentucky for the week of May 24, impacting production of the
F-150, and the Escape and Lincoln Corsair SUVs.
A record 10% increase in
used vehicle prices between March and April accounted for approximately one-third of the overall rise in the most recent Consumer Price Index.
The
Mexican Labor Ministry invalidated a union vote at a GM plant in Silao after
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai asked the Mexican government to examine allegations that employees’ rights were denied; this marks the first time the federal government initiated an action under the USMCA’s labor dispute enforcement tool.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is investigating whether Tesla has misled customers by advertising its full self-driving option, a system that isn’t even close to being fully autonomous.
Tesla charges customers an additional $10,000 for the ‘Full Self-Driving’ option and in fine print on its website acknowledges that the system “does not make the car autonomous” and that it requires “active supervision” from the driver.
Speaking with the
Los Angeles Times, leading expert on automated vehicle law at the University of South Carolina, Bryant Walker Smith, said the fine print used by Tesla provides a weak defense against deceptive marketing allegations.
California DMV places Teslaâs âFull Self-Drivingâ under review
By Tom Krisher and Stefanie Dazio
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LOS ANGELES - California’s Department of Motor Vehicles is reviewing whether Tesla is violating a state regulation by advertising its vehicles as being fully autonomous without meeting the legal definition of self-driving.
The department confirmed the review Monday in an email to The Associated Press. State regulation prohibits advertising vehicles for sale or lease as autonomous if they can’t comply with the regulatory definition, it said.
Tesla advertises a $10,000 Full Self-Driving option on the website for its electric vehicles, but the same website says the vehicles cannot drive themselves. CEO Elon Musk has said he expects Tesla’s vehicles will be able to drive themselves more safely than humans sometime this year.
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According to data from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, Apple currently has 68 self-driving test vehicles on the road. This marks the first increase in Apple s fleet since August 2019.
An Apple report with the DMV from February indicated that the company s autonomous vehicle technology as a whole seemingly improved. That report indicated that Apple s fleet doubled its road testing miles in 2020. It also had fewer situations where a human driver had to take over than the year prior.
MacReports also indicates that the number of Apple autonomous test drivers has decreased to 76. In October 2020, Apple had 154 licensed drivers, meaning that the number has been slashed by nearly half.