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Tesla ‘obviously’ plans to take on Uber and Lyft, says CEO Elon Musk

Posted on Oct 25, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

On a third-quarter earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company “obviously” plans to jump into ride-hailing in the era...

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How this self-driving car company aims to make the roads safer with a new type of vehicle

Posted on Oct 24, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Zoox, a Silicon Valley start-up that has largely been shrouded in secrecy, is developing the complete self-driving package. In addition to...

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Self-driving taxis – a dystopian future?

Posted on Oct 23, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Would you like to ask Addison Lee whether the “self-driving” cars it aims to deploy in London by 2021 (Report, 22 October) will in fact...

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Can suppliers handle autonomous-era exposure?

Posted on Oct 22, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Few small parts suppliers have ever faced the kind of negative attention that comes with headline-making accidents....

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Autonomous vehicles have some regulatory roadblocks to navigate

Posted on Oct 22, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

As John Paul drove to Stamford in mid-October in yet another autumn deluge, he kept his hands tight on the wheel despite the car crammed...

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Why cities might want to start planning now for self-driving vehicles

Posted on Oct 22, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Trucks

The day autonomous vehicles outnumber manned vehicles is coming, and experts say transportation and urban planners, public policy makers...

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Why people keep rear-ending self-driving cars

Posted on Oct 18, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The self-driving-car crashes that usually make the news are, unsurprisingly, either big and smashy or new and curious. The Apple that got...

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Shaken by hype, self-driving leaders adopt new strategy: Shutting up

Posted on Oct 18, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy:...

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Autonomous vehicles, AI and voice-enabled inventory among Domino’s Pizza tech initiatives, CEO says

Posted on Oct 17, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Jim Cramer hears from Domino’s Pizza CEO Ritch Allison after earnings about the company’s international growth, how he sees...

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Movement rises to keep humans, not robots, in the driver’s seat

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Car enthusiast McKeel Hagerty’s future changed in March 2017. He was at a car event in Vancouver, British Columbia, when a stranger...

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BMW board member in denial about EV revolution (yikes)

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

As we recently reported, Klaus Frölich, BMW’s board member in charge of development, recently opened up about the company’s “nightmare”...

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GM’s driverless vehicles require a ‘degree of harmonization’ with governments, innovation chief says

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Ahead of General Motors’ launch of a driverless vehicle fleet in 2019, the legacy automaker is hoping for some cooperation with...

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What’s it like to be driven in a driverless car?

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

As driverless car technology becomes more sophisticated, companies are getting closer to developing a truly driverless experience. Compelo...

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Keeping disruption in perspective

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Big shifts are coming to the auto retail world, and dealers say they’re getting ready for them. But don’t fall for all the...

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Change is coming to automobile dealerships

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” I was...

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Money and manpower: Autonomous trucks’ two transparent trends

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 in Perspective, Trucks

I’m an outlier when it comes to predicting the advent and everyday use of autonomous vehicles in trucking in that I tend to believe this...

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So, self-driving cars could make humans unhealthier than ever

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

CARS KILL PEOPLE. More than 37,000 in 2017—what would statistically be considered a good year. Big tech has a solution: Have the cars...

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Everyone’s in the self-driving car game now

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

In 2004, the US military wanted cars to drive themselves 142 miles across California’s Mojave Desert without ending up in a ditch. None...

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Apple, Waymo, and even Amazon will have a huge advantage against Tesla in the race to launch self-driving taxis, one Wall Street analyst says

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The Morgan Stanley auto analyst Adam Jonas told Business Insider that major tech companies like Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon would have an...

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Autonomous trucks need more than self-driving tech to become reality

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

How does a self-driving truck get dispatched? What happens when it breaks down? If a receiver keeps it sitting waiting to unload? When it...

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