Getting Root Access On A Telsa

A growing number of manufacturers are locking perfectly good hardware behind arbitrary software restrictions. While this ought to be a bigger controversy, people seem to keep paying for things like…

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him

Walter Isaacson's new biography on Elon Musk also reveals that the CEO left his engineers who wanted to use LiDAR exasperated.

Next-Gen Autopilot Puts A Robot At The Controls

While the concept of automotive “autopilots” are still in their infancy, pretty much any aircraft larger than an ultralight will have some mechanism to at least hold a fixed course and …

Tesla-Aktionäre verklagen Musk wegen Autopilot-Funktion | DW | 28.02.2023

Elektroauto-Pionier Elon Musk droht neues Ungemach. Tesla-Aktionäre reichten in den USA eine Sammelklage gegen den Firmenchef ein.

Go Fly A Kite

Harvesting energy from the wind has been a commercially viable way of generating clean energy for around three decades now. Wind turbines are a reliable, proven technology but they do have some dow…

R2Home Is Ready To Bring Back Your High Altitude Payload

With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and deposit it in some inaccessible spot. To solve this [Yohan Hadji] created R2…

Autonomes Fahren: Teslas Unfall und die großen Hürden der Branche | DW | 23.04.2021

Ein Unfall, bei dem zwei Männer in einem selbstfahrenden Tesla ums Leben kamen, setzt die Branche einmal mehr unter Druck. Dabei hakt es beim autonomen Fahren noch an vielen Stellen. Ein Überblick.