Federal Investigation into Tesla Autopilot Defects Could Pull 765k Cars From U.S. Roads
A new federal investigation into Tesla’s possibly-defective driver assistance technology could result in the removal of hundreds of thousands of their cars from U.S. roads.
By
Kea Wilson
8:31 PM CDT on August 19, 2021
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