Tag: safety regulation


  • Tesla Faces US Probe Over Self-Driving Cars Driving on Wrong Side of Road

    Tesla Faces US Probe Over Self-Driving Cars Driving on Wrong Side of Road

    Overview of the Probe The U.S. government has opened a preliminary evaluation into Tesla’s self-driving software following reports that the company’s autonomous vehicles violated traffic laws, including driving on the wrong side of the road and failing to stop at red lights. The investigation, led by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), spans an…

  • GWR fined £1m over Bath train death safety breach

    GWR fined £1m over Bath train death safety breach

    What happened on the Bath train? On 1 December 2018, near Twerton in Bath, a young woman was killed after striking her head on a tree branch while her head was outside a droplight window on a moving train. Bethan Roper, 28, from Penarth in Wales, worked for the Welsh Refugee Council, was a Unite…