Waymo + Uber — Will This Combo Blow Up Robotaxi Use?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 04:59:21 +0000

Waymo’s been expanding, and usage of the company’s robotaxis has been growing steadily, but, honestly, it’s all been happening a bit slowly. That’s been the investment/financial critique of the company, that it can’t scale up quickly, easily, or profitably. An investment case is hard to make if there’s no clear way a company or technology […]

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7 More Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) Perspectives & Observations

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 17:26:27 +0000

fastest Tesla Model 3For years, the CleanTechnica reader community has amazed me. The quality of thought, diversity of thought, and depth of information is astounding. When I published a story last night on Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) progress, I didn’t really know what to expect. It’s a true grey area that displays tremendous progress in technology and […]

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Cruise Robotaxis Entering More Cities

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 00:29:24 +0000

Cruise has slowly been expanding its network of robotaxis and their availability in certain markets. Though, it’s been a long time since the company entered new cities … until now. Cruise is now coming to Houston and Dallas. While Cruise vehicles will be fully self driving and operate even without safety drivers in other markets, […]

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Tesla Full Self Driving Beta: FSD Beta 11.3.6 — Revolutionary New Version V11?

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 07:04:27 +0000

For 6 months my wife and I have been using various FSD Beta V10 versions. Recently, we’ve been hearing about Tesla working on a big upgrade to V11. This upgrade would incorporate big improvements, including putting the local driving stack together with the long-distance driving stack into a unified whole. We heard reports of people […]

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Crushing Colin & Killing Sophia — Could You Dispose Of A Sentient Appliance?

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:05:57 +0000

I read the book titled Killing Sophia — Consciousness, Empathy, and Reason in the Age of Intelligent Robots by Thomas Telving, with whom I discussed autonomous cars some time back, and with a smashing title like that, I thought I would dive into it. Sophia is not a car, “she” is a human-like android, but […]

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Confessions of an EV/Tesla Fanboy: Who’s Dumber, Me or My Tesla?

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:18:22 +0000

I’m a huge EV fanboy and have been driving electric cars now for 8 years. I also have solar panels on my house, so I can brag that I’m driving on sunshine. I owned three Nissan Leafs, with ranges of 81 miles, 115 miles, and 150 miles. My first Nissan Leaf had a 24 kWh […]

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Open Letter From AI Leaders: Let’s Take A Break For Safety

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:30:57 +0000

machine learningThe danger of artificial intelligence is a common theme in science fiction because it allows authors and filmmakers to explore ethical and societal questions that arise when humans develop entities that can rival or surpass their own intelligence. There are various reasons why this keeps popping up. The biggest one is probably loss of control. […]

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Dr. Know-It-All John Gibbs Talks Tesla, Full Self-Driving, & AI

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:44:36 +0000

One of Tesla’s main contributions to the world, besides popularizing the electric vehicle, includes its huge leaps and bounds in the artificial intelligence sector. We recently spoke on the phone with Artimatic Technologies President and University of Georgia Professor John Gibbs, who runs the YouTube channel Dr. Know-it-All Knows it All, about his coverage of […]

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