Trouble Brews Anew at Tesla, Plus More Car News This Week

Nearly two months into 2019, it's been a mostly quiet year for Tesla. It closed 2018 with two profitable quarters and started talking up the much-anticipated Model Y. It laid off 7 percent of its workforce, but that seemed more a sign of understanding the difficulties of making it in a brutal industry than failing to do so. This week, though, saw the return of the sort of headlines familiar to those who follow the upstart automaker: CEO Elon Musk made a hard-to-believe promise about the state of Tesla's self-driving technology. Consumer Reports stopped recommending the Model 3 over quality-control issues.