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US regulator ramps up scrutiny over Tesla’s autopilot feature

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upgraded its investigation into whether the AI function in Tesla’s four models undermines the driver’s supervision.

The United States vehicle safety regulator is to upgrade its investigation into the autopilot function of Tesla electric cars after more than a dozen of them crashed into parked first-responder vehicles in four years. We hear more from our North of America Business Correspondent Michelle Fleury and Columbia University's economist Cary Leahey.
In its first report since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation has warned that poor countries will have to pay more money to receive less food this year. One of these nations is Ethiopia, where Doctors Without Borders are seeing more children die of malnutrition. We speak to Raphael Veicht, their Emergency Coordinator in Addis Ababa.
After decades of stable or falling prices, a 2.5% inflation rate has come as a shock for Japanese shoppers. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Mariko Oi reports from Tokyo.
Algeria is "immediately" suspending a 20-year friendship treaty with Spain, after Madrid reversed its neutral stance towards Western Sahara. Algerian researcher at the University of Glasgow Zine Ghebouli explains why.

(Picture: Tesla's logo. Picture credit: Reuters)

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