 |
|
|
|||||
Federal auto safety regulators are investigating why Tesla has repeatedly broken rules requiring it to quickly tell them about crashes involving its self-driving technology, a potentially significant development given the company’s plans to put hundreds of thousands of driverless cars on U.S. roads over the next year.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a filing on Thursday that Tesla’s reports on “numerous” incidents involving its driver assistance and self-driving features were submitted far too late several months after the crashes instead of within five days as required.The probe comes two months after the electric vehicle maker run by Elon Musk started a self-driving taxi service in Austin, Texas, with hopes of soon offering it nationwide. The company also hopes to send over-the-air software updates to millions of Teslas already on the road that will allow them to drive themselves.Investors enthusiastic about such plans have kept Tesla stock aloft despite plunging sales and profits due to boycotts over Musk’s support for U.S. President Donald Trump and far-right politicians in Europe.The safety agency said the probe will focus on why Tesla took so long to report the crashes, whether the reports included all the necessary data and details and if there are crashes that the agency still doesn’t know about.Tesla did not respond to a request for comment, but the agency noted that the company has told it the delays were “due to an issue with Tesla’s data collection,” which Tesla says has now been fixed.The new investigation follows another probe that began in October into potential problems with Tesla’s self-driving technology in foggy weather and other low visibility conditions, which has been linked to several accidents including one death. That probe involves 2.4 million Tesla vehicles.The crash reporting rule for vehicles using Level 2 driver-assistance software, or those that require drivers to pay full attention to the road, was implemented in 2021. Since then Tesla has reported 2,308 crashes when the software was used, the vast majority of the more than 2,600 reported by all automakers, according to agency data. The numbers are skewed by the fact that Tesla is by far the dominant maker of partial self-driving vehicles in the U.S.The company has been offering robotaxi rides in Austin to only a select group of riders, but said it will allow any paying customer to hail its cabs starting sometime in September, according to a Musk post on X earlier this month. Tesla has also begun allowing limited robotaxi service in San Francisco with a driver behind the wheel as a safety check to conform with California rules.Investors in Tesla were initially cheered after Trump won the presidency in hopes he would reward his biggest financial backer, Musk, by getting safety regulators to go easier on the company. Now that isn’t so certain given Musk’s falling out with the president in recent months after Musk called Trump’s budget bill an “abomination” that would add to U.S. debt and threatened to form a new political party.Tesla stock fell less than 1% in afternoon trading Thursday to $321. Bernard Condon, AP Business Writer
Category:
E-Commerce
Southwind Foods has issued a voluntary recall of frozen shrimp products due to potential radioactive contamination, according to the company and an alert issued Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It follows an earlier warning on Tuesday about Cesium-137 (Cs-137) detection in five different shrimp products processed by an Indonesia-based supplier called BMS Foods. So, have you bought frozen shrimp lately? Heres everything you need to know about the recalls. Which brands have been impacted by the recall? The initial recall was for Great Value frozen shrimp sold at Walmart stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. There were three lots of Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp recalled: Lot code: 8005540-1, Best by March 15, 2027 Lot code: 8005538-1, Best by March 15, 2027 Lot code: 8005539-1, Best by March 15, 2027 They were sold between July 17 and August 8, 2025. The FDA recommends throwing away any shrimp youve bought that matches this criteria. The more recent recall is for five brands from California-based Southwind Foods: Sand Bar, Arctic Shores, Best Yet, Great American, and First Street. These products were distributed between July 17 and August 8, 2025, to a range of retailers, distributors, and wholesalers in Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Washington State. The recall includes 13 lots. You can find full lot numbers and product images on the Southwind Foods website. Again, these items are at risk of containing Cs-137. No illness have been reported so far due to the product. The FDA says it will continue working with industry to trace all implicated products to gather as much information about them as possible and take action as appropriate.
Category:
E-Commerce
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire border wall along the southern border with Mexico is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration and she credited President Trump with the idea.Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help out with the painting.She touted the height of the wall as well as the depth as ways to deter people seeking to go over or under the walls. And then Noem said Homeland Security was going to be trying black paint to make the metal hotter.“That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally,” Noem said.U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, who attended the event with Noem, said the paint would also help deter rust.During Trump’s first term, building the wall was a central focus of his hardline immigration policy. During his second term, his mass deportation agenda with arrests in the interior of the country has been the main focus, but Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall as part of new funding passed by Congress this summer.Noem said they have been building about a half mile of barrier every day.“The border wall will look very different based on the topography and the geography of where it is built,” she said.She said that in addition to barriers like the one she visited Tuesday, the department is also working on “water-borne infrastructure.” Long sections of the roughly 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico sit along the Rio Grande River in Texas.The Trump administration is pushing forward with completing the wall at the same time that the number of people crossing the border illegally has plummeted. Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
Category:
E-Commerce
All news |
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||