Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 03:06:17 +0000
Autonomous driving companies are a dime a dozen. Autonomous driving companies bought by Amazon, on the other hand — well, there’s Zoox. It was almost three years ago that Amazon took Zoox in-house. Since then, there’s been some news here and there, but not much. What has been happening at Zoox? That’s been the question. […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:57:57 +0000
As the autonomous vehicle industry progresses, we’re starting to see fewer traditional cars and more cars that are designed around not having a driver. Instead of a car where everybody faces the same way and it’s designed to look cool, the goals have changed. Ease of access and spaciousness, along with safety and cost-effectiveness, are […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 04:57:28 +0000
A few companies are starting to offer geographically limited robotaxi service in China, most notably Baidu and AutoX. You can now add Pony.ai to the mix, sort of. Its robotaxis just got approved for testing from the Beijing Intelligent Connected Vehicle Policy Pilot Zone. To begin, Pony.ai will test 10 robotaxis — completely driverless — “in […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:12:50 +0000
Want to run a robotaxi in Seattle? You’ll need $5 million in insurance!
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:30:32 +0000
GM’s Robotaxi Service Starts Work in Tesla’s Back Yard
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:30:39 +0000
Years after Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick said Uber would buy all the robotaxis Tesla could make (it turns out the figure was zero), Uber has launched its first robotaxi for commercial use. Over in Las Vegas, Uber users can now virtually hail a full-on robotaxi. Uber’s New Robotaxi Service Who did Uber end […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:39:38 +0000
California’s Wisk Aero claims that it has developed the first self-flying, fully electric, 4-seat air taxi in the world. This is its 6th generation air taxi and it is reportedly “designed to meet and exceed rigorous commercial safety standards, making it one of the safest systems in aviation,” according to Wisk Aero. But how real […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:45:37 +0000
It’s a common enough joke on the EV forums: Elon Musk hates trains. Musk hates trains so much, in fact, that he supposedly put forward the Hyperloop project specifically to disrupt a high-speed rail project in California, all in a bid to sell more cars. Well, it seems that the Tesla CEO Technoking is in […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:17:00 +0000
Many investors and onlookers are wondering what the future of Tesla’s valuation will look like, especially knowing how the company could revolutionize the world with its products. From electric vehicles to sustainable energy, some have even made the case that Tesla could someday become the world’s largest company — likely shifting the way the world […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 17:48:17 +0000
I saw many takes on Tesla AI Day 2022 that fell into a couple of main buckets. Those were mostly about the robot, Optimus, and we’ve published articles covering that at length. However, I stumbled across some critiques of the FSD Beta portion of the presentation that I found surprising and interesting. These mostly came […]