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Technology developed for Lunar landings makes self-driving cars safer on Earth
NASA is advancing a laser-based technology designed to help spacecraft land on a proverbial dime for missions to the Moon and Mars. The technology will undergo testing on upcoming suborbital rocket launches with Blue Origin on its New Shepard…
Zoox, a self-driving tech startup acquired by Amazon for $1.2 billion, becomes the fourth company to get a driverless car permit in California | Tech News | Startups News
Nickie Louise Posted On September 20, 2020 The first time we covered Zoox was back in July 2018 when the self-driving tech startup raised a massive $500 million at a $3.2 billion valuation. The San Francisco-based Zoox is an AI robotics company…
The incredible shrinking GM: Mary Barra bets that smaller is better
Mary Barra wasn't among them. When she took the CEO job in early 2014, she inherited a company that for decades was so large and unwieldy executives sometimes didn't know whether parts of the business were making or losing money. On a visit to GM's…
Letter: Corporate greed, cheap foreign labor ruined American jobs
In the beginning, corporate America began its greedy campaign to move our jobs out of the unionized north to the non-union right-to-work-for-less southern states. When that didn't work, corporate America threatened workers they would move our jobs…
Changing Business Models: General Motors In The Limelight (NYSE:GM)
The world is changing. The spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recessions that have followed have, in many ways, accelerated the move into the future. This certainly seems to be the case for General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM). Mary…
8.39-737MaxFinalReport-091820
39th edition of the 8th year of SmartDrivingCars Staff, Sept. 2020, “…This report concludes the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's 18- month long investigation of the design, development, and certification of…
Sony CEO Is a 'Fortnite' Fan, and Not Just for the Profits
Kenichiro Yoshida remembers the day—Sept. 17, 2014—that he felt Sony Corp. hit bottom. Then, as Sony's newly minted chief financial officer, he was bowing in apology at a press conference because the company had halted its dividend…
The Musk Method: Learn from partners then go it alone
Elon Musk is hailed as an innovator and disrupter who went from knowing next to nothing about building cars to running the world's most valuable automaker in the space of 16 years. But his record shows he is more of a fast learner who forged…
Tech's 'Next Big Thing' : 20 Technologies that will change your life by 2050
I recently shared an article called “ The “Next Big Thing” in Technology : 20 Inventions That Will Change the World ”, which got a few dozen thousand hits in the past couple of weeks. This calls for a sequel. The…
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