Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the end of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software earlier this week. “Version 12 won’t be beta,” Musk wrote on Twitter on June 27 in response to an FSD beta user who asked, “FSD Beta 12 ‘maybe later this year.’” While Musk provided no further detail or possible timeline, his…

WASHINGTON—U.S. regulators on Thursday issued final rules eliminating the need for automated vehicle manufacturers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls to meet crash standards. Automakers and tech companies have faced significant hurdles to deploying automated driving system (ADS) vehicles without human controls because of safety standards written decades ago that assume people…

A long-distance test run using a driverless truck cab in Arizona went without a hitch on Dec. 22 to complete the world’s first live demonstration of a fully automated long-haul vehicle on open roads. TuSimple Holdings announced on Dec. 29 that it had successfully completed the 80-mile test drive using a specially updated Class 8…