NEW YORK NOW – State lawmakers are looking to expand access to electric vehicles by allowing more manufacturers to sell directly to consumers in New York, in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Legislators held a press conference in Albany Wednesday morning to push for a proposal that would allow for manufacturers other than Tesla to sell vehicles right to consumers.
Senate Environmental Chair Todd Kaminsky, D-Nassau Credit: New York NOW
Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Island who sponsors the bill, said that New York is lagging behind California by a significant margin when it comes to sales of zero-emissions vehicles, making this measure more urgent now than ever before.
Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved this “right-to-repair” ballot initiative that addressed access to vehicle telematics. But automakers have won a temporary injunction that puts enforcement on hold.
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Tesla’s Autopilot software, an advanced driver assistance feature, is in the news again. And not in a good way.
Over the weekend, a short video of a person sitting in the back seat of a driverless Tesla operating on public roads in California caught the internet’s attention. The six-second video shows a man staring out the window from the back of the Tesla that’s driving down the road. There’s nobody in the driver’s seat. California Highway Patrol said it was searching for the man behind the “unusual incident.” The man was later arrested.
How A Drunk Driver Inspired U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján To Back Research And Development Of Anti-DWI Technology
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján:
Sen. Ben Ray Luján said he was about 20 years old when a pair of headlights altered the trajectory of his life.
It was 1992. Luján, D-N.M., recalls he was staying with his parents during a summer break from the University of New Mexico. He said he was about a half-mile from home, coming back from a basketball tournament in his Toyota Celica when he rounded a bend and was hit head-on by a drunk driver who had veered far into his lane.