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Finally, just a few days before this week's fatal crash, an Uber vehicle in self - driving mode crashed into another vehicle in Pittsburgh.

For more than a year prior to a fatal crash in Arizona, Uber's self - driving cars failed more often, and more dramatically, than competitors» autonomous vehicles.

The NTSB said it removed Tesla as a party to its investigation of a fatal crash involving a Model X.

They found that ridesharing services are related to a decrease in fatal crashes, DUIs and some types of crime.

Virgin Galactic is «back on track» after completing its first rocket - powered test flight since a fatal crash in late 2014.

Tesla has said over-reliance on Autopilot also played a role in another fatal crash in March of this year.

Even while pushing the envelope, the company has never suffered a fatal crash.

At the time, the NTSB said that «operational limits» such as Tesla being unable to ensure that drivers are paying attention when a car travels at high speed played a major role in the 2016 fatal crash.

In a series of condescending tweets, Musk told Fortune that the fatal crash «was not material» to Tesla's business outlook.

U.S. safety regulators have demanded that it hand over detailed information about the design, operation and testing of its Autopilot technology following a May 7 fatal crash in which the system was in use.

If autonomous cars are safer than human - driven ones, the reasoning goes, we'll save more lives by bringing the technology to market as quickly as we can, even if there are a few fatal crashes along the way.

The Twitter post said that two NTSB investigators were sent to conduct field investigations for a fatal crash of a Tesla car on March 23, near Mountain View, California.

The car maker, which has consistently fallen short of promised production targets and is fighting bad publicity over a fatal crash of a car using its Autopilot system, said 10 days ago it would have positive cash flow from the third quarter.

The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber's ability to test self - driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49 - year - old pedestrian.

Compare this to commercial aircraft, where about one in 500,000 flights results in a fatal crash.

The company warned investors that a fatal crash related to its autopilot feature, even a single incident, would be a material event to «our brand, business, prospects, and operating results.»

Last year, the billionaire even engaged in a brief Twitter spat with Fortune (including blocking Fortune «s primary Twitter account) over its reporting in the wake of a Tesla driver's fatal crash and Musk's post-crash sale of Tesla shares in a public offering.

Tesla Inc.'s ongoing spat with the National Transportation Safety Board over a fatal crash has reached new heights, with the electric - car maker and the safety agency releasing dueling statements.

In 2017, NHTSA closed a probe into a May 2016 fatal crash involving a driver using the system and cited data from the automaker that crash rates fell by 40 percent after installation of Autopilot's Autosteer function.

In July 2016, after a fatal crash killed a driver using the Autopilot function, CNN reported that several employees tried to warn Musk about the reliability of the technology, and that it wasn't ready to be deployed to consumers.

In 2017, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed a probe into a May 2016 fatal crash involving a driver using the system and cited data from the automaker that crash rates fell by 40 percent after installation of Autopilot's Autosteer function.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports on Tesla stock hitting a ten - month low as the NTSB investigates the fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X in California.

A summary of this story, earlier gave the wrong model vehicle for the car that was involved in a fatal crash.

And more recently, Tesla has been in the press after it revealed that its semi autonomous driving technology, Autopilot, was engaged during a fatal crash in May.

The National Transportation Safety Board posts on Twitter it sent two investigators to look into the fatal crash of a Tesla vehicle in California last week.

As the investigation into last week's fatal crash where an autonomous Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., the state's governor has suspended Uber's permission to test its cars there.

That came after the National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday that it was looking into a fatal crash in California last week involving a Tesla Model X and, possibly, its Autopilot feature.

Tesla's semiautonomous driver assistance technology has been under scrutiny since a third fatal crash occurred in late March.

Tesla said on Friday that the Model X involved in a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles some driving tasks.

Tesla has provided another update to last week's fatal crash.

It was at least the third fatal crash to have occurred while Autopilot was deployed.

The public and media are blowing the fatal crash involving the Tesla Model S completely out of proportion, with some already calling for a ban on semi-automated vehicles.

In light of Tesla going a bit rogue and disclosing details of the fatal crash that involved Autopilot, the National Transportation Safety Board is removing Tesla as a party in the investigation.

It's worth noting Tesla's Autopilot software has been under scrutiny following a fatal crash in Mountain View last month.

The crash of an Air National Guard transport was the second fatal crash in less than a year involving a version of the C - 130, a workhorse of military aviation.

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds announced Thursday morning that they've canceled their appearance at the Fort Lauderdale Air Show May 5 - 6 following a pilot's fatal crash in the Nevada desert earlier this month.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous Autopilot system was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self - driving technology on public roads.

Concern has grown over the safety of Autopilot, its driver - assistance system, after a fatal crash on March 23 that occurred while the system was engaged.

The fatal crash, which occurred in Florida on May 7, will see the NHTSA examine the design and the performance of the Autopilot system of Tesla Motors, which has previously been criticized by self - driving car technology experts as launched too early.

More questions were raised about the safety of the company's self - driving technology after a second fatal crash in which the Autopilot system had been engaged.

It was at least the third fatal crash that has taken place while a driver was using Autopilot.

The company said Friday, after the markets closed, that a recent fatal crash of one of its cars involved an activated Autopilot.

Gao's family claimed that the autopilot technology failed to prevent the fatal crash.

The fatal crash in Tempe was the first pedestrian fatality involving a self - driving vehicle in the United States.

The company recently acknowledged that this technology was engaged at the time of a recent fatal crash in California, and on Tuesday it was reported that the company commented directly on the safety of its system and what it described as «moral and legal liability» in the crash.

Advocacy division of Consumer Reports calls on Tesla to improve safety and disclose safety data after fatal crash

Authorities in northern Virginia say Jacqueline Badger Mars, an owner of candy company Mars Inc., was driving an SUV that was involved in a fatal crash.

DETROIT (AP)-- Tesla Motors is planning improvements to its semi-autonomous Autopilot system after a fatal crash earlier this summer.

Our trucks are safer than ever, and the U.S. Department of Transportation reports that the fatal crash rate has fallen 73 percent since 1973 — in large part thanks to these efforts.

In addition to a voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S vehicles that owes to a problem with the power - steer component of some of the cars, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week launched an investigation into the role of Tesla's Autopilot in a fatal crash.