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Are Waymo’s Accomplishments & Methods Being Overlooked?

February 10, 2025 admin 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), waymo

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:46:53 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, Michael Barnard published a great article on Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, what he thought about it a decade ago, what’s happened since then, and whether Tesla can ever achieve robotaxi-level self-driving. There were a lot of great comments under the article. A few articles … [continued]

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Waymo Road Trip Visiting 10+ Cities in 2025

February 3, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, cities, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, LAS VEGAS, robotaxis, san-diego, waymo, waymo driver, waymo one

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:03:57 +0000

Waymo continues to expand its service and testing, and in 2025, that’s going to include a road trip to more than 10 additional cities. Note that we have no idea how many cities Waymo will begin robotaxi service in this year, if any, but I do presume it will roll … [continued]

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Tesla Robotaxis Coming to Austin in June — Probably. Maybe.

February 2, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, robotaxis, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), tesla robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:21:19 +0000

During the Tesla conference call for shareholders this week, where Tesla reportedly some not entirely positive financial results (and bad financial trends), there had to be a big announcement, right? Aside from Elon Musk thinking out loud that Tesla might be worth more than the next 5 most valuable companies … [continued]

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Counterargument to Tesla Cars with Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) Appreciating in Value Dramatically

February 1, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), tesla robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:28:12 +0000

Yesterday, I wrote about Elon Musk’s long history predicting robotaxi-capable Tesla Autopilot/Full Self Driving. We then got another update from Tesla, stating: “2025 will be a seminal year in Tesla’s history as FSD (Supervised) continues to rapidly improve with the aim of ultimately exceeding human levels of safety. This will … [continued]

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Honest Thinking: Why Did Elon Musk Say in 2017 a Self-Driving Tesla Would Go from LA to NYC in 2017?

January 31, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:23:45 +0000

One of the more wild claims Elon Musk has made — regarding Tesla, that is — was back in 2016 when he said a self-driving Tesla would be able to go from Los Angeles to New York City “in ~2 years” (in early 2018). A year and a few months … [continued]

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Tesla Vehicles Drive Themselves Unsupervised From Factory To Semi Truck Loading

January 31, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:47:53 +0000

Tesla has tweeted out that its vehicles are now driving themselves — using Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) — from the factory where they are produced in California to the loading dock lanes where they will get put onto semi trucks and taken away. You can watch videos of that here: … [continued]

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How Is Rivian Going To Lead On Driver Assist Technology?

January 27, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, rivian, Volkswagen

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:59:57 +0000

There’s not often news in the EV world that baffles me, or even really surprises me, but I’ve been a little thrown off by some announcements from Rivian this week, including how they’ve come about. Rivian is a cool EV startup that I really like. It could actually be the … [continued]

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EHang Electric Air Taxi Completes Demo Flight in Shanghai — Autonomously

January 27, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, ehang, electric aircraft, Electric vehicles, evtol

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:58:49 +0000

One of the leading electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft companies in the world, EHang, recently completed a demo flight of its autonomous (pilot-free) EH216-S, which is capable of carrying human passengers, in downtown Shanghai. “It served as an excellent backdrop to demonstrate the exceptional capabilities in convenience, safety, … [continued]

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Tesla’s Autonomous Driving Strategy Stranded By Technological Divergence

January 22, 2025 admin AI, autonomous, autonomous car, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, full self driving, green economy, investment, machine learning, Manufacturing, tesla

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:55:41 +0000

It’s been a decade since I first wrote about Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, comparing it to Google’s (now Waymo’s). At the time, my technical assessment based on my experience with both AI and robotics was that Tesla’s approach was superior. It still is, but it might need to pivot. … [continued]

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WTF Is Actually Going On With Elon Musk?

January 21, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, covid-19, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:48:36 +0000

I just had a long chat with a good friend who was basically an OG in Tesla world. We talked about all kinds of Tesla topics trying to understand where Tesla would be going in 2025 and beyond. We covered a variety of topics, pros and cons, opportunities and risks. … [continued]

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