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Is Line-Following the Future of Self-Driving Cars?
Tesla has been promising full self-driving capabilities for almost a decade now and they still haven't pulled it off. YouTube is brimming with videos of Waymo self-driving cars committing hilarious blunders. My Mazda's lane-keeping system gets…
Aurora to add night driving, new routes as it ramps driverless trucking
Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation plans to expand on the success of its first driverless commercial launch and add night driving to its operations. Aurora said Thursday in the second half of 2025 it will start sending its…
Tesla has a problem with the Robotaxi name, but there are solutions
Elon Musk might be a 'genius inventor' if you believe some people, but he isn't so great at branding his creations. Tesla has the same name as an existing company (see our Tesla logo history), the Cybertruck sounds like a generic vehicle from a 90s…
Tesla's Robotaxi Hits Austin in Weeks! Musk Says Millions of EVs Will Rule Roads
In just a few weeks, Tesla could reshape urban travel with its much-anticipated robotaxi service, set to launch in Austin, Texas, by June 2025. CEO Elon Musk has boldly predicted that 'millions' of autonomous electric vehicles (EVs) will hit the…
Waymos Get In Way Fewer Serious Crashes With Cyclists And Pedestrians Than Human Drivers
Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration highlights that self-driving cars need a near-pristine safety record to be better drivers than humans. However, one driverless taxi service has the data to prove that its vehicles can…
Zoox Recalls 270 Robotaxis Following Collision Incident in Las Vegas
Source: Tomás Del Coro from Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Amazon's autonomous vehicle startup Zoox is pulling 270 self-driving cars off the streets after a mishap in Las Vegas. According to Zoox's…
AI Unearths New Potential In The Mining Industry
Mining might not be something you think about daily, but every physical product we use and depend on is dependent on natural resources that come from and are extracting from the Earth. AI is increasingly being utilized in the mining industry to…
Looking Back 10 Years, Seed Investors Envisioned A Different Future Unfolding
Reviewing old seed funding data is a lot like going into the past to see what people thought the future would look like. In this case, we're not going back to the distant past. Instead, we're looking roughly 10 years ago, amid the waning days of…
USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as 'merely descriptive'
'We are an AI, robotics company,' Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last April. Despite the fact that the company's revenues are overwhelmingly derived from selling new electric vehicles, such prosaic activities hold no luster for the boss. Instead…
Remote-Controlled Rental Cars: Halo's Vegas Expansion Brings 'Teledriven' Vehicles to Henderson
Remote-Controlled Rentals Expand in Las Vegas Valley with New Henderson Facility In a significant development for the burgeoning “driverless rental” market, a company called Halo is expanding its footprint in Las Vegas with a new…
Aurora innovation outlines plans for commercialization and scaling autonomous trucking in 2025 (NASDAQ:AUR)
Earnings Call Insights: Aurora Innovation (AUR) Q1 2025 CEO Chris Urmson announced that Aurora has commenced driverless commercial operations, with trucks making regular deliveries for Uber Freight and Hirschbach between Dallas and Houston. Over…
Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson is leaving the self-driving truck startup
Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week after the company launched its commercial self-driving truck service in Texas. Anderson held the chief product officer position…
China's Geely moves to take EV startup Zeekr private amid trade war with US
China's Geely Auto wants to take its luxury EV unit Zeekr off the New York Stock Exchange one year after the company's debut, per Zeekr filings. The take-private offer comes as the Trump administration explores kicking Chinese companies off…
Humiliation as Tesla offers huge discounts to stop flagging sales
READ MORE: NY lawmakers' brutal U-turn on Tesla is a stunning blow to Musk Tesla is facing a new problem it hasn't encountered before: customers aren't flocking to buy their new products. A once hotly anticipated $48,990 long-range, all-wheel-drive…
Speech by Governor Barr on artificial intelligence and the labor market
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. In my remarks, I would like to address a key question facing economists, policymakers, and people all over the world: How will artificial intelligence, particularly generative artificial…
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