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The Daily Money: A month in a self-driving Tesla
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Date:2025-04-13 19:38:55
Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.
My colleague, Jim Sergent, woke up on April 1 and noticed an email from Tesla on his phone: What? Free self-driving mode on his Model Y for the entire month?
As it was April Fool's Day, Jim guessed Elon Musk was playing a joke on Tesla drivers. He'd hop in the car, fire up the feature and trigger a video on the center screen of Musk wagging his finger and laughing.
But no, Musk was good to his word.
Here's what Jim learned from a month with Tesla doing the driving.
Fed passes on interest-rate cuts, again
The Federal Reserve held its key interest rate steady again Wednesday and gave no signal that it plans to lower it anytime soon, following a resurgence of inflation early this year.
In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed pointedly said: “In recent months, there has been a lack of further progress toward the (Fed’s) 2 percent inflation objective.”
Concerns about persistent inflation suggest the Fed likely won't be prepared to cut rates for at least a few months, if not longer.
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