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Wednesday, 19 January 2022

BBC News

• Oil prices hit seven-year high after attackAn attack on fuel trucks in the Middle East and hopes for a global economic recovery have driven up prices.

The Guardian

• Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter over fatal Autopilot crashMisuse of Autopilot, which can control steering, speed and braking, is the subject of investigations by two federal agenciesCalifornia prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot who ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people in 2019.The defendant appears to be the first person to be charged with a felony in the United States for a fatal crash involving a motorist who was using a partially automated driving system. Los Angeles county prosecutors filed the charges in October, but they came to light only last week. C...

City AM

• Tesla shareholders call on judge to make Musk repay $13bn for SolarCity dealTesla shareholders have called on a judge to make Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk repay $13bn for the 2016 acquisition of solar panel company SolarCity. The claimants argued that Musk, SolarCity’s 22 per cent shareholder, strong-armed Tesla’s board to buy the cash-stripped company founded by his cousins Peter and Lyndon Rive, Reuters reported. As a [...] The post Tesla shareholders call on judge to make Musk repay $13bn for SolarCity deal appeared first on CityAM.

New Civil Engineer

• Unwanted anniversary marks year of National Highways planning delaysTransport secretary Grant Shapps and the country’s major roads operator National Highways are today marking an unwanted anniversary. That is because it is exactly a year to the day since Shapps last made a planning decision on time in relation to a National Highways development consent order (DCO) application.