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Alfred Jones Talks About the Challenges of Designing Fully Self-Driving Vehicles
The leap to self-driving cars could be as game-changing as the one from horse power to engine power. If cars prove able to drive themselves better than humans do, the safety gains could be enormous: auto accidents were the #8 cause of death worldwide in 2016. And who doesn’t want to turn travel time into…
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Insider Transportation: GM’s risky battery bet, Uber avoids a shutdown, airports adapt to the age of coronavirus, and more
Cadillac Happy Friday and welcome back to Business Insider’s weekly roundup of all things A to B. I’m senior editor Alex Davies, back on BI’s transportation desk after a six-year hiatus. A whole lot changed in that interim: Wall Street has decided that Tesla is worth more than most of its competitors combined. The COVID-19…
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The Station: The startups edition
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B. I’m…
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Opera and the firm short-selling its stock (alleging Africa fintech abuses) weigh in
Internet services firm Opera has arrived under a short-sell attack according to allegations of predatory lending practices with its fintech goods in Africa. Hindenburg Research issued a report claiming (among other matters ) that Opera’s finance goods in Nigeria and Kenya have run afoul of sensible consumer clinics and Google Play Store guidelines for financing…
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Hailing a driverless ride in a Waymo
Ed Niedermeyer Contributor Share on Twitter Ed Niedermeyer is an author, columnist and co-host of The Autonocast. His book, Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors, premiered in August 2019. “Congrats! This car is yours, with no one up front,” the pop-up telling from the Waymo app reads. “This journey will probably be different. With…
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For Tech Companies Going Public, An Unwanted Side Effect: IPO-Related Lawsuits
When Wall Street welcomed Uber and Lyft into the public markets before this season, it was heralded as a defining moment for an whole generation of technology unicorns that, until recently, had mostly eschewed the rite of passage that’s an initial public offering. However, in the aftermath of their IPOs, both ride-sharing giants have found…
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An autonomous robot EV charger is coming to San Francisco
Chargers these days are intended for individual drivers. Electrify America along with San Francisco-based startup Stable are preparing for the day when people are no more behind the wheel. Electrify America, the thing set up from Volkswagen as a part of its settlement with U.S. regulators across the diesel emissions cheating scandal, is partnering with…
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Lyft poaches Bird’s head of vehicle product
Shared electric bicycle and scooter providers are constantly at war with every other — whether it’s battling for a working permit in a highly coveted market, raising a enormous round of financing or making a key hire. Nowadays, the war continues with Lyft’s recent hiring of Eugene Kwak, Bird’s now-former mind of vehicle product. Kwak’s…
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Liam O’Connor, hired to help build Lyft’s bike and scooter business, has left after 7 months
The emerging business of supplying scooters and bikes on demand has not been very eloquent, and today comes among the newest lumps: TechCrunch has learned and verified that Liam O’Connor, an executive hired to help transportation company Lyft build its bike and scooter operations, has left after seven months with the newly-public company. The change…
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Some reassuring data for those worried unicorns are wrecking the Bay Area
Joanna Glasner Contributor More Articles by this contributor From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate Meals VCs are serving up A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals last year, and Large insurers are in all the way The San Francisco Bay Area is at launching startups that go on to dominate…