Tesla's driverless Robotaxi launch in Miami, its first fully unsupervised deployment outside Texas, is testing camera-only self-driving against tropical rain and glare while NHTSA scrutiny of the program intensifies.
Jul 7, 2026Michael Butler, 44, was arrested and charged with manslaughter after his Tesla Model 3, which he claimed was using Full Self-Driving, crashed through a home in Katy, Texas on June 19, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila inside. An arrest affidavit shows Butler's phone had multiple Google searches from May 2026 about FSD being 'not aggressive enough,' while Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy said on X the driver 'manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.'
Jul 2, 2026Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, a company record and a 25% jump from a year earlier, beating even the most bullish Wall Street estimates of roughly 418,000-420,000 by more than 60,000 units, according to Ars Technica and.
Jul 2, 2026Federal safety regulators at NHTSA have opened an investigation into Tesla after a vehicle allegedly operating on Autopilot crashed into a house and killed a woman inside. Tesla is publicly pushing back on the narrative, but the probe sharpens regulatory scrutiny of its driver-assistance systems just as the company leans harder into autonomy.
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