NTSB chief calls Tesla’s autonomous driving ‘misleading’

A new day dawns and Tesla deceives “Complete autonomous driving”Name was not banned by the Feds. All this and more in The morning shift by September 20, 2021.

1st gear: words but no action

Elon said that Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” technology (it doesn’t) will be upgraded for city use, sort of a black comedy like video of Teslas on autopilot threatening to run over pedestrians was shot.

The National Transportation Safety Board is not particularly favorable to this development, as the the Wall Street newspaper reports:

Jennifer Homendy, the new director of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Tesla should not roll out the city driving tool until it addresses what the agency sees as safety gaps in the technology of the business. The NTSB, which investigates accidents and issues safety recommendations despite having no regulatory authority, urged Tesla to crack down on how drivers can use business management tools.

“Basic security concerns need to be addressed before it is extended to other streets in the city and other areas,” she said in an interview. Ms Homendy also expressed concern about the way Tesla software is tested on public roads.

Ms Homendy called Tesla’s use of the term full self-driving “deceptive and irresponsible,” adding that people pay more attention to marketing than warnings in car manuals or on the website. ‘a company. In the case of Tesla, she said, “It has clearly misled a lot of people into abusing and abusing the technology. “

I, too, have concerns about sharing the road with untrained drivers who test Tesla technology around me without my consent. Iit’s almost like the others federal government weapons with the regulatory power should do something.

2nd Gear: there’s sort of a new Takata survey of 30 million cars

The Takata airbag reminds us that its roots go back to 2014 will never end, as it seems. There is a new survey, like Reuters reports:

U.S. auto safety investigators have opened a new investigation into 30 million vehicles built by nearly two dozen automakers with Potentially defective Takata airbag inflators, showed a government document seen by Reuters on Sunday.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday opened a technical analysis of about 30 million U.S. vehicles from model years 2001 to 2019. Automakers have been alerted to the investigation, which is not yet public.

The new survey includes vehicles assembled by Honda Motor Co., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., General Motors, Subaru, Tesla Inc., Ferrari, Nissan Motor Co., Mazda Motor Corp., Daimler, BMW, Chrysler ( now part of Stellantis), Porsche Cars, Jaguar Land Rover (owned by Tata Motors) and others.

3rd gear: Honda is targeting 70,000 sales of electric vehicles that are not the Honda E for some reason

The adorable Honda was developed with US sales in mind, and we almost had the power tailgate. Honda is now talking about electric vehicle sales in the United States, and you could think that would be e-related news, but no. It’s a bland crossover thing. Of Automotive News:

American Honda has set a target of 70,000 annual sales for the Prologue crossing which it will launch in 2024 on a platform developed by General Motors.

And as the Japanese company develops its own electric vehicle platform throughout the decade, Honda expects to reach half a million electric vehicle sales in North America by 2030, on track to become a fully zero-emission automaker by 2040, the company said on Monday.

“The launch of our first BEV volume in 2024 is the start of an exciting new direction for Honda,” said Dave gardner, executive vice president of national operations at American Honda. “We are working with our dealers to plan the transition from selling primarily gasoline vehicles to selling 100% electric vehicles by 2040.”

Honda, do the right thing. E-it up.

4th gear: A look at the implosion of the Chinese electric vehicle start-up Evergrande

There is news of cars trickling out from China, in that real estate mega-company Evergrande is imploding. The ramifications for cars are that the company wanted to get plugged in and make electric vehicles, and now this program can be orphaned. here is Bloomberg tiredness:

Evergrande warned investors last week that it had made “no material progress” in its efforts to sell stakes in the electric car unit, which had once been one of its most valuable assets before a crisis that has seen more than $ 80 billion wiped out of its market capitalization since April.

Even after investing around 50 billion yuan ($ 7.7 billion) in automotive development, Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group has encountered repeated setbacks. The company said last month it may have to delay the start of manufacturing again if it fails to find new funding, having already missed its targets to start test production by last September.

Losses in the first six months of 2021 were 4.8 billion yuan, and that’s not the only thing that worries veterans of the automotive industry. A range of nine different models displayed in April seemed ambitious, even for an established manufacturer, as did a forecast to deliver 5 million cars per year by 2035. Workers were encouraged to promote the sale of apartments – the parent company is a real real estate developer – and management staff have received bonuses related to this task.

A lesson the automotive world learned from Lotus over a few years ago is that things that seem too good to be true are.

5th gear: As Ford exits India, used car hub hits $ 2 billion

Sale New cars in India seems to be a bit of a challenge these days, because Ford recently demonstrated, but by selling used cars is hot action, like the Financial Time reports:

SoftBank’s Vision Fund and Tencent are among international funds investing $ 450 million in Indian online used vehicle seller Cars24 as the global chip shortage forces manufacturers to cut production of new vehicles on the market. one of the biggest markets in the world.

Yuri Milner’s DST Global and American Falcon Edge are also investing in a tower that values ​​the six-year-old company at nearly $ 2 billion, doubling its valuation in less than a year.

India’s new car market, the world’s fifth largest, has been disrupted by production issues during the pandemic. Investors say this creates opportunities for used vehicles, especially the relatively young online market. Cars24 is India’s largest used vehicle website.

I find all of this news generally interesting as this is another case of American car issues (we struggle to get new cars and used prices get out of hand) is not exclusive to the states United and part of a larger global atmosphere. We are not an island!

Reverse: Would have been fun