Automotive News: The customer is always wrong: Tesla lets out self-driving car data - when it suits, Self-Driving Cars Raise Questions About Who Carries Insurance, Ford Recalls F-250 Trucks Due To Park Flaw

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The customer is always wrong: Tesla lets out self-driving car data – when it suits

The luxury car maker is quick to divulge data to suggest its technology was not responsible for crashes but refuses to let drivers themselves see the data logs

Luxury car maker Tesla is throwing some drivers’ privacy under the wheels following accidents in order to defend its hi-tech self-driving car technology.

And while the company has handed data to media following crashes, it won’t provide its customers’ data logs to the drivers themselves, according to interviews conducted by the Guardian. read more »

Self-Driving Cars Raise Questions About Who Carries Insurance

An accident last month in Tempe, Ariz., involving a self-driving Uber car highlighted some novel new issues regarding fault and liability that experts say will come up more often as autonomous vehicles hit the road.

And that will have an increasing impact on an insurance industry that so far has no road map for how to deal with the new technologies. read more »

Ford Recalls F-250 Trucks Due To Park Flaw

Ford is recalling some of its F250 pickup trucks in the United States and Canada because the units have the tendency to move after their automatic transmission levers are rolled into parked position. This has been announced by the company last Saturday, saying that there are about 52,000 affected units. read more »

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