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The car landed upside down in a marsh.

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During a 37-minute drive, his hands were on the wheel for 25 seconds.

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Neither side admitted wrong doing.

Confirmed

80 mph Autosteer requires camera calibration to work.

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Caught by a dashcam, the blame might not lie with the system.

Perhaps, the driver should have taken over in time.

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He allegedly worked with the former head of Google's self-driving car.

The lawsuit says they there was an attempt to lure away Tesla employees.

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Dashcam footage shows the Tesla stopping in time to avoid a big wreck. It may or may not be proof of the system's new capabilities.

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With the new update, when the Autopilot is set on roads other than the freeway, you can't engage the system at speeds higher than the speed limit.

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Monthly updates will then follow in 2017.

Keep your connection open.

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Tesla to German government: thbbft!

The company revealed the results in a two-sentence statement to the German governement.

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Will Tesla be forced to rename its semi-autonomous technology?

California and Germany have some issues with Autopilot.

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Ignore the nags and lose the function.

If you ignore the Autopilot warnings, you go to time out.

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Does it really matter?

There doesn't seem to be any new hardware associated with Autopilot 2.0.

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The feature is now referred to as "self-assisted driving" rather than "Autopilot" or "self-driving."

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It could be dangerous... if you have access to a $90,000 signal generator.

Researchers in South Carolina and China teamed up to fool the radar and ultra-sonic sensors in a Tesla Model S' Autopilot system. But it wasn't easy.

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Regular checkups would emulate what the aviation industry has in place.

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Is it still true that there's no such thing as bad publicity?

Joshua Brown's fatality at the wheel of a Tesla Model S didn't have a big impact on the public's perception of autonomous driving technology.

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Just saying it's 'beta' isn't good enough, CR says.

The publication has called on Tesla to remove Autosteer and relabel Autopilot in the wake of the recent accidents.

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Police found both devices in the wrecked EV, but don't know if Joshua Brown was using them.

A spokesperson with the Florida Highway Patrol disputed reports that Tesla Model S driver Joshua Brown was watching a movie at the time of his fatal crash.

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This time, it was a Model X driving along the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Both the vehicle's owner and passenger walked away from the accident, which the Pennsylvania State Police plan to issue a ticket over.

Autoblog Minute

A roundup of this week's car news includes the first fatal Tesla Autopilot crash and Porsche's reveal of the 2017 Panamera.

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A motorist is killed while using Tesla Autopilot. In what is believed to be the first fatal accident involving Tesla's autonomous driving feature.

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Senior Editor Chris McGraw recaps the week in automotive news, including a look at the first fatal crash involving Tesla's Autopilot feature, and the 2017 Porsche Panamera debut.

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Police found a portable DVD player in the wrecked EV.

Joshua Brown's fatal accident may be the fault of a problem with Tesla's AutoPilot system, but distracted driving could also be a contributing factor.

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