Tag: transportation
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GM and Fiat Chrysler are buying Tesla’s regulatory credits
One of the more opaque sections of Tesla’s company just became a bit more transparent. Recent figures demonstrate that GM and Fiat Chrysler have bought zero-emissions car credits from Tesla, Bloomberg reported Monday. Tesla’s ZEV credit app isn. The company has brought in almost $2 billion in revenue since 2010 when it began promoting regulatory…
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Why GM and Fiat Chrysler are buying Tesla’s regulatory credits
One of the more opaque sections of Tesla’s business just became a bit more transparent. Recent filings demonstrate that GM and Fiat Chrysler have purchased zero-emissions vehicle credits from Tesla, Bloomberg reported Monday. Tesla’s ZEV credit program isn’t a mystery. The company has brought in nearly $2 billion in earnings since 2010 as it started…
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Boring Company Races Tunnel Tesla With One On The Road
The Boring Company is a brainchild of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. It envisions a future where cars go from 1 place to another quickly using underground tunnels. On moving platforms which can achieve very high rates the cars would be positioned. To demonstrate this, The Boring Company staged a race between a Tesla in its…
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Fresh off a $530M round, Aurora acquires lidar startup Blackmore
Aurora, the self-driving Automobile startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. The company, founded in early 2017 by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, announced Thursday that it acquired lidar company Blackmore. The Blackmore purchase follows a second smaller, and previously unknown, acquisition of 7D Labs that occurred earlier…
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Consumer Reports knocks Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot feature
Consumer Reports is calling the automatic lane-change attribute on Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot “much less capable ” than an individual driver and cautioned it could pose safety risks. The consumer advocacy organization posted its review Wednesday about the newest edition of Tesla’s advanced driver assistance system. Navigate on Autopilot is an active guidance system that’s…
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Review of Elon Musk’s DC-to-Baltimore ‘Loop’ system reveals safety concerns
The Boring Company’s Loop transit system that aims to shuttle people in autonomous electric vehicles between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. fails to fulfill several key national safety standards, a review of its proposal reveals. The system appears to lack emergency exits, ignore the most recent engineering practices and suggests passenger escape ladders that one fire…
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Consumer Reports knocks Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot, calls new feature ‘far less competent’ than a human driver
Consumer Reports is calling the automatic lane-change attribute on Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot “far less competent” than a human driver and cautioned it could pose security risks. The consumer advocacy organization posted its review Wednesday on the most recent version of Tesla’s advanced driver assistance system. Navigate on Autopilot is an active guidance system that’s…
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Quadric.io raises $15M to build a plug-and-play supercomputer for autonomous systems
Quadric.io, a startup founded by some of the people behind the once-secretive bitcoin mining operation “21E6,” has raised $15 million in a Series A round which will finance the development of a supercomputer designed for autonomous systems. The round was led by automotive Tier 1 supplier DENSO and its semiconductor products arm NSITEXE, which is also…
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Udacity, Mercedes-Benz create sensor fusion nanodegree as demand for self-driving car engineers rises
Udacity and Mercedes-Benz’s North American R&D lab have developed curriculum for a sensor fusion nanodegree, the latest effort by the online education startup to meet high demand for skills related to autonomous vehicles and to duplicate the success it has had with its self-driving vehicle engineer program. Registration for the sensor fusion degree opened Tuesday.…
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China’s Tesla wannabe Xpeng starts ride-hailing service
There’re a lot of synergies between electric vehicles and ride-hailing. Drivers have the ability to save more steering an EV compared to a gas vehicle. Conscious consumers will opt to hire an electric car. And EVs are designed with compatibility with driving, which is expected to hit on the road in the coming decades. Really,…