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Appears in 10 stories · Last updated Oct 24, 2026
Issuing revised CAFE standards for 2022–2031
The Transportation Department's final fuel-economy rule, published September 28, sets the 2031 fleetwide target at 34.9 miles per gallon, down from 50.4 under President Biden. It also rewrites standards for model years 2022 through 2026 and ends the credit trading that let automakers buy and sell efficiency gains, starting in 2028.
Updated Oct 24
Investigating Waymo incidents
Waymo says its driverless cars were involved in 95% fewer crashes that caused serious injury or death than human drivers, across about 270 million miles driven without a person at the wheel through June 2026. The company's September report covers Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco, and puts injury-causing crashes 82% below the human rate.
Updated Oct 23
Says it will monitor the Roadster situation
Tesla showed the second-generation Roadster at SpaceX's McGregor, Texas, test site on Oct. 15. The two-seater used a suction system to drive upside down on a ramp, spun in midair and landed on cold gas thrusters. Tesla is taking $50,000 deposits for the Performance version and $250,000 for the Thrust version; the Rocket trim, with a full flight system, is invite-only.
Updated Oct 21
As of September 2026: Banned DTN60DB inflators; investigating online sales
eBay has banned the sale of airbags, airbag inflators, and steering wheel airbag covers on its platform — a policy that took effect September 24, 2026. The move follows a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into counterfeit replacement inflators linked to over a dozen deaths and severe injuries.
Updated Sep 24
As of July 2026: Investigating Tesla's self-driving vision system
In western Miami-Dade County, you can now open an app and ride in a Tesla with nobody in the driver's seat. On July 6, 2026, Tesla began running its Robotaxi service on public Miami streets with no human safety monitor in the car. Tesla shares closed up 6.7% that day — lifted by the Miami launch and a Q2 delivery report that beat analyst estimates by about 18%.
Updated Jul 7
As of July 2026: Flagged the defect and posted the recall
Put one of these Ford trucks in park, step out, and it might not stay put. On June 30, 2026, Ford recalled 741,195 U.S. vehicles because a transmission defect can damage the part that holds the car still.
Updated Jul 1
As of May 2026: Primary agency tracking and regulating vehicle safety
An estimated 36,640 people died on American roads in 2025—the fewest since 2019 and a 6.7 percent drop from the year before. The death rate fell to 1.10 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, the second-lowest figure in more than a century of federal recordkeeping, even as Americans drove roughly 30 billion more miles than they did in 2024.
Updated May 31
As of May 2026: Three concurrent FSD investigations; visibility probe at pre-recall Engineering Analysis stage
By April 2026, Tesla had expanded its unsupervised robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, bringing the combined Texas fleet to about 573 vehicles. Newly unredacted crash reports tell a messier story: two of the 17 Austin incidents involved remote teleoperators who drove vehicles into a fence and a construction barricade.
Updated May 23
As of May 2026: Granted Tesla extension to February 23, 2026 for FSD investigation response
For a century, auto insurers priced risk based on the driver: age, driving record, location. Lemonade's January 2026 partnership with Tesla is the first major attempt to price risk based on which entity—human or software—is actually controlling the vehicle. Tesla owners using Full Self-Driving get a 50% rate reduction on miles driven with the system engaged, a discount five times larger than Tesla's own insurance offers. The product launched in Arizona on January 26, 2026.
Updated May 22
As of May 2026: Proposing weaker fuel‑economy standards that align with EPA’s softer emissions approach
The EPA isn't killing Biden's vehicle pollution rules outright. It plans to keep looser 2026 standards in place for two extra model years instead of enforcing tougher limits on smog-forming pollution starting in 2027.
Updated May 11
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