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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From Apple renewing talks with OpenAI to deadly crashes tied to Tesla Autopilot, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.
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U.S. Safety Board Calls Out Tesla, Apple Over Fatal Autopilot Crashes And Sloppy Regulating
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board just put Tesla, Apple, and the U.S. federal government on blast, claiming the two companies have been reckless in self-regulating vehicle safety systems and distracted driving, and concluded that the government needs to step in and do more to regulate the driver assistance systems on our roads.
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Does Tesla’s Autosteer Really Cut Crashes By 40 Per Cent?
The assertion that Tesla’s Autopilot features reduces airbag deployments by 40 per cent, made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration back in January, may use faulty data and cannot be replicated by researchers, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday claims.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Have Steering Wheels
The head of Google’s self-driving car division made headlines recently for asking US federal regulators to allow a vehicle without human-facing features like a steering wheel. Now he’s made a very good case for why no autonomous vehicle on the road should have these things at all.