Sentences with phrase «were fatal crashes»

There were fatal crashes every year and dozens of serious injuries.

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«[Trump's] plan would essentially throw states a few Legos when what we really need is concrete and steel,» said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Chairman of the Democratic Governor's Association, whose state was the site of a fatal Amtrak crash at the end of 2017.

Tesla has also been engaged in a public fight this month with the National Transportation Safety Board over its investigation of a fatal Model X crash near San Francisco.

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.

According to research conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, 26 per cent of all fatal and injury crashes are attributed to driver fatigue, and in 2006, as many as 167,000 Ontario drivers were involved in at least one crash due to fatigue or drowsiness.

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.

Tesla has been in a precarious position of late: In March, the National Transportation Safety Board revealed it was investigating a fatal California crash involving the driver of a Tesla vehicle; the company's stock subsequently tumbled to a 14 - month low.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Motors and Mobileye are ending their partnership, as a result of the fatal car crash of a Model S vehicle while Autopilot was enabled.

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.

The carmaker continues to grapple with fallout from a fatal Florida crash of a Model S sedan after both the driver and the car's «autopilot» system failed to detect a white tractor - trailer against a «brightly lit sky.»

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.

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.

Tonight at 5 pm: Uber suspended all of its self - driving testing Monday after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the vehicles.

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.

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.

Tesla provided some more details on Friday about the fatal crash involving one of its Model X vehicles, but the National Transportation Safety Board isn't particularly happy about that, The Washington Post first reported.

Still, Tesla had to acknowledge two realities made clear by Huang's death: Autonomous vehicle technology is still in its infancy, and, because no tech is perfect, people in even the most advanced cars will still be involved in fatal crashes.

Aircraft crashes are usually fatal and poor maintenance practices is one of the commonest causes of crashes.

Autonomous cars should be required to meet standards on their ability to detect potential hazards, and better ways are needed to keep their human drivers ready to assume control, U.S. auto safety and technology experts said after fatal crashes involving Uber Technologies and Tesla vehicles.

Tesla has presented to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee two theories about what caused the May 7 fatal crash of a Model S vehicle that was running with the Autopilot system enabled.

In the same vein, Mr. Musk should have disclosed the fatal crash of a Tesla Model S when it was on auto pilot.

It is not yet known if the vehicle was operating in Tesla's autonomous mode, which led to a fatal crash in 2016.

There has been a declining trend in fatal crashes involving articulated trucks.

With its glitch - filled first week, the trucked - in snow and the fatal crash of a Georgian luger, the Vancouver edition will forever be an also - ran.

Those who tested positive for alcohol in fatal crashes from 2013 to 2015 — figures for 2016 were not available — grew 17 percent, from 129 to 151.

Like a juicy worm attracting a fish, with the fatal hook artfully concealed, the Gooner fans are drawn into believing that there is something intriguingly possible about this story and fatally their hopes are increased that a super talent is to be ours, only for Arsene to reveal in an interview that no bid has been made for Mbappe, let alone an increased bid, and none will be made as he is sure the youngster will either stay with his club or join one of the Gulf state clubs, Citeh, PSG, or a Spanish club, and you could hear the hopes of the fans crash to the floor.