Crashes and Fires

Jack Stilgoe: In blaming human error for a self-driving car crash, US regulators have missed an opportunity to learn from such incidents

The highway agency found that while Tesla’s Autopilot feature didn’t prevent a crash in Florida, the system performed as it was intended.

Tesla's Autopilot system isn't defective, investigators say—and it's stopping crashes.

A Tesla Model S ran into a highway barrier at a construction zone near Dallas, after it failed to recognize the roadway and merge into another lane. The result: an unhappy driver and a mangled car.

A Tesla Model X 'tapped' a Phoenix police motorcycle

A recent lawsuit reveals clues about how Tesla thinks about ethics and emergency situations.

In the wake of an explosive crash involving a Model S, the question arises as to whether Tesla’s battery technology is inherently safe.

We think of automobiles as American as baseball, apple pie, and hotdogs – or at least that’s what the car advertisers have gotten us to believe.

"I think when you have a technology that brings so much benefit that I don't think people are going to drop off."

Man's death in self-driving Tesla crash a reminder that humans and self-driving cars incompatible, but car companies will push technology goals over human needs.

Tesla has been under scrutiny before over several instances of vehicles catching on fire. The media made a big deal out of it despite the fact that almost every instance happened after a high-speed…

Due to the continued questions of safety surrounding the five fires with the American manufactured Tesla Model S, it seemed time to address the ultimate measures of safety. Life, and Injury. For this we start with the data

During a test drive in France in a Tesla Model S 90D, the vehicle suddenly sent a visual alert on the dashboard stating that there was a problem with “charging”. The Tesla employee giving the test drive made the driver park the car on the side of the road. The Tesla Model S caught on fire only a moment later  according to witnesses. Firefighters arrived quickly on the scene to control the fire, but the vehicle was completely destroyed.

The Tesla Model S afire in Tennessee. (Photo via Bloomberg from Instagram user DavanH.) The soft underbelly of the Tesla Model S could prove to be the soft underbelly of Elon Musk's goal of global expansion and domination of the electric-vehicle industry. A cliche of journalism and many other things is that [...]

Shares of Tesla Motors fell more than 6 per cent on Wednesday after an video showed one of the firm's electric Model S vehicles engulfed in flames in Seattle.

An NRK report said (via Google Translate) that no one was in the car when it caught fire, and that ...