Tesla

Tesla jumped as much as 6.7% to a record high of $970.84 in New York, before paring gains to 4.4%, with the company’s market valuation around $955 billion.

The agency launched a probe of Tesla’s Autopilot program in August after almost a dozen collisions at crash scenes involving first-responder vehicles.

Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has said that on Friday, the electric-car maker will roll out an updated version of its Full Self-Driving beta software, which until now has only been available to roughly 2,000 people.

NHTSA, which announced the Tesla probe Monday, opened 26 probes into various auto and highway safety issues so far this year -- more than in all of 2020 or 2019, according to its website.

The investigation covers an estimated 765,000 Tesla Model Y, X, S and 3 vehicles from the 2014-2021 model years. NHTSA said it launched the probe after 11 crashes that resulted in 17 injuries and one fatality.

Zerology's fleet will leverage anonymized, individual Tesla vehicle data to inform an on-demand commercial insurance product.

Tesla was heavily criticized for not doing enough to keep drivers from using its driver-assist function inappropriately.

The carmaker won’t use or record vehicle data when pricing insurance, it says on the site

Founder Elon Musk has bristled for at how some Tesla customers have paid higher insurance rates, undercutting safety claims about its Autopilot system.

Mark Wilson's company is working with Tesla to insure driverless vehicles.