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Tesla is now looking to hire self-driving car test drivers around the world

Posted on Jun 10, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

Do you want to work for Tesla remotely and test its latest Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features? You may be in luck as we learn that...

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The promise and peril of self-driving cars in cities

Posted on Jun 10, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

For most people, self-driving cars are not real. They are theoretical devices hyped in the media and by investors hoping to cash in at...

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Project Endeavour autonomous vehicle trial heads to Birmingham

Posted on Jun 10, 2021 in Cars, News

Project Endeavour arrives in Birmingham this week, with the UK’s second largest city hosting the next phase of autonomous vehicle trials...

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Is Cathie Wood’s robotaxi thesis realistic?

Posted on Jun 10, 2021 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Will “robotaxis” — self-driving ridesharing vehicles — be the key to exponential profit growth for companies like...

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Alibaba to develop self-driving trucks with logistics unit Cainiao

Posted on Jun 10, 2021 in Cars, News, Trucks

Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) plans to develop self-driving trucks with logistics subsidiary Cainiao,...

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Apple hires former Canoo CEO as it ramps up electric car project

Posted on Jun 10, 2021 in Cars, News

Ulrich Kranz, a former BMW executive and the recently departed CEO and co-founder of EV startup Canoo, has been hired by Apple, the...

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Waymo teams up with trucker JB Hunt on autonomous freight hauling in Texas

Posted on Jun 10, 2021 in Cars, News

Waymo’s autonomous trucking unit got a boost with the announcement that it would be teaming up with JB Hunt Transport Services, a...

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Motional CEO hints at an autonomous future in logistics

Posted on Jun 9, 2021 in Cars, News, Trucks

Motional, the $4 billion joint venture between Aptiv and Hyundai, is exploring the company’s potential involvement in autonomous trucking...

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Tesla (TSLA) could dominate $1.2 trillion market with autonomous, Uber-like vehicle fleet

Posted on Jun 9, 2021 in Cars, Markets, Perspective

Tesla (TSLA) is looking at a more-than-decent chunk of a market valued at $1.2 trillion with its upcoming Tesla Network, a new Uber-like...

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Will your autonomous car abandon you if you miss payments?

Posted on Jun 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

New technology raises new legal questions More than 1,400 autonomous vehicles from more than 80 companies are being tested on US roads. As...

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Autonomous vehicle makers help fight COVID-19 in Guangzhou

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, News

Chinese autonomous vehicle makers are participating in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus in Guangzhou, South China’s...

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What’s it like being a passenger in a self-driving taxi?

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Elon Musk and Uber have both made claims that there’d be millions of driverless taxis on our roads by now and, well, there aren’t. Most of...

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Harrowing tales of teenage drivers in everyday traffic amidst adult drivers and those emerging self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Adult drivers oftentimes detest teenage drivers. This is not ostensibly a generational differences issue. The cold hard facts are that...

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Stock take: Legal groundwork laid for self-driving cars on UK roads

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Policy & Regulation

The UK government is developing legislation to permit autonomous cars to drive on public roads, which will address a range of issues such...

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Why the dream of truly driverless cars is slowly dying

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

We were told there’d be fully-autonomous vehicles dominating roadways across the globe by 2018. When that didn’t happen, we were told...

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Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, News

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has secured a permit...

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Self-driving cars could be decades away, no matter what Elon Musk said

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

In 2015, Elon Musk said self-driving cars that could drive “anywhere” would be here within two or three years....

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The Mars autonomous helicopter named Ingenuity gets confounded by timestamp glitch, providing insightful lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever glanced at a snapshot and asked someone when they took that photo? I’m sure that you have. You undoubtedly wanted to place...

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That California woman using her car to thwart a mountain lion and save her beloved dog provides valuable lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

What would you do? A woman in California heard her beloved pet dog barking frantically outside of her home and wondered what in the heck...

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Meituan unmanned delivery team to be nearly tripled in size

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, News

Beijing (Gasgoo)- Meituan’s unmanned delivery center will reportedly add another 500 jobs, covering algorithm, engineering, and other...

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