Almost 2,700 Austin-based Tesla employees will be laid off as part of the automaker s move to cut 10% of its global workforce, an April 22 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act, or WARN, notice, revealed.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening an investigation into Tesla's recall of vehicles after identifying concerns due to crash events.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was opening an investigation after the agency identified concerns due to crash events after vehicles had the recall software update installed "and results from preliminary NHTSA tests of remedied vehicles." The agency s new probe comes after it closed its nearly three-year investigation into Autopilot, saying it found evidence that "Tesla s weak driver engagement system was not appropriate for Autopilot s permissive operating capabilities" that result in a "critical safety gap."
US auto safety regulatory body said on Friday it opened a probe to determine whether Tesla s decision to recall two million cars last December over autopilot safety concerns was adequate. Electric car maker Tesla had recalled more than two million vehicles across all models in the United States last December due to a risk linked to its autopilot software.