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The secret is out that confidential computing is a hot trend and seriously crucial to AI and for self-driving cars too

Posted on Jun 16, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Let’s play a spying game. A friend of yours wants to write down a secret and pass along the note to you. There is dire concern that an...

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GM-backed Cruise secures $5 billion credit line as it prepares to launch self-driving robotaxis

Posted on Jun 16, 2021 in Cars, Finance, News

Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, has secured a new $5 billion line of credit as it prepares for commercialization of...

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Chinese startup Pony.ai plans to launch a driverless robotaxi service in California in 2022

Posted on Jun 16, 2021 in Cars, News

Pony.ai, the robotaxi startup that operates in China and the United States, has started testing driverless vehicles on public roads in...

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Here’s how ransomware is going to fiendishly impede AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 14, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Ransomware is being continually mentioned in the daily news and appears to be a seemingly unstoppable fiendish craze....

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Internal whistleblowers might just blow the lid off some quite dicey AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 12, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

There is the old saying that you ought to not look in the kitchen when you go to some restaurants or eateries for a bite to eat. When you...

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Why Mate Rimac is working on electric robotaxis

Posted on Jun 12, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Mate Rimac, the founder and CEO of Croatian electric hypercar and components developer Rimac Automobili, started a separate company nearly...

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Supposing the FBI secretly ran a fleet of AI self-driving cars to track and ultimately nab unsuspecting criminals

Posted on Jun 12, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Gotcha! You might have seen the recent headlines blaring that the FBI secretly duped hundreds of alleged criminals by providing in the...

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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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