NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it. Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers were cut, too. Same for the epilepsy program.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that the driver of a Tesla that crashed into a house in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, defeating the company’s fully autonomous (supervised) driving software. Data recovered from the Tesla showed the vehicle was traveling more than 70 miles per hour when it crashed