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GM’s Cruise recalls and updates self-driving software in cars following crash

Posted on Sep 2, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit Cruise has recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving robotaxis after a June crash in San...

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Apple’s Car is beloved before it even exists

Posted on Sep 2, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

If semiconductor shortages, recession risks and the once-a-century shift in propulsion weren’t enough to keep auto executives up at night,...

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Waymo opens up driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted passengers

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle developer under Alphabet, is opening up its driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted local...

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Baidu’s (BIDU) Apollo Go service strikes 1 million EV autonomous ride milestone in China

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Cars, Finance, News

Chinese tech giant Baidu (BIDU) beat Wall Street’s Q2 earnings estimates on Tuesday despite several headwinds in China’s economy. Baidu’s...

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Auto insurance watchdog warns that one of the most important features of self-driving cars can fail to spot pedestrians at night

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Dozens of companies are working on making the dream of self-driving cars a reality, but a key feature behind every autonomous vehicle...

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Elon Musk wants fully self-driving Teslas to go on sale by Christmas

Posted on Aug 29, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Elon Musk said he wants fully self-driving Teslas to go on sale by the end of this year. Speaking at a conference in Norway on Monday, he...

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Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun pictured with firm’s autonomous test car

Posted on Aug 29, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Lei Jun, the founder and CEO of Beijing-based tech giant Xiaomi, posted a photo of himself and one of the firm’s automated driving test...

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Driving toward the automobile’s electric, autonomous future

Posted on Aug 29, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

IT’S A HEADY time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast. US companies are under...

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How Google’s self-driving car will change everything

Posted on Aug 27, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Imagine getting into your car, typing — or, better yet speaking — a location into your vehicle’s interface, then letting it drive you to...

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Elon Musk hits out at beta tester for “complaining” about full self-driving beta

Posted on Aug 26, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has hit out at a software CEO for taking to Twitter and pointing out an issue with the automaker’s Full...

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You’ll get (slow) satellite communications from your Tesla. How will you use it?

Posted on Aug 26, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The cellular world was rocked yesterday by a story that SpaceX/Starlink and TMobile would deploy an ability for ordinary 5G handsets to do...

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Why Tesla thinks it’ll build self-driving cars before everyone else

Posted on Aug 25, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla has revealed the AI technology it’s created to teach its thousands of cars to drive themselves in the race to revolutionize...

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Engineer admits he stole trade secrets while working on the Apple Car

Posted on Aug 22, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Xiaolang Zhang has pled guilty to stealing trade secrets from Apple, where he worked on a self-driving car project from 2015 to 2018 (via...

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Inflation Tesla-style: Elon Musk unveils record price hike for unfinished self-driving software

Posted on Aug 22, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Elon Musk is jacking up the price of Tesla’s unfinished autonomous vehicle software yet again, an added feature that itself is starting to...

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YouTube removes video that tests Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta against real kids

Posted on Aug 20, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

YouTube has removed a video that shows Tesla drivers carrying out their own safety tests to determine whether the EV’s (electric vehicle)...

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U.S. extends public input on GM, Ford self-driving petitions

Posted on Aug 18, 2022 in Cars, News

WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – U.S. auto safety regulators will extend a deadline for public input on General Motors (GM.N) and Ford...

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SAIC AI LAB to arm Robotaxis with high-level autonomous driving 2.0 architecture

Posted on Aug 17, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Beijing (Gasgoo)- SAIC Motor’s SAIC AI LAB launched its latest high-level autonomous driving 2.0 technology architecture on August 16th....

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Tesla mistakes horse and buggy for murderous semi truck

Posted on Aug 16, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Is it a truck? Is it a van? A new viral video, shared on TikTok, shows a Tesla vehicle getting mightily confused by a white, four-wheeled...

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‘Let’s go hit this kid’: Tesla stans find actual child to try to prove Teslas don’t run over kids

Posted on Aug 16, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Last week, Twitter user and prominent Elon Musk supporter Omar Qazi, who runs the blog Whole Mars Catalog, tweeted: “Is there anyone in...

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Lyft and Motional’s all-electric robotaxi service is now live in Las Vegas

Posted on Aug 16, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

A new robotaxi service has officially launched for public use in Las Vegas. It’s being run by Lyft and an autonomous vehicle company...

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