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Li Auto CEO Thinks Autonomous Cars Need Lidar in China

January 16, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, li auto, li xiang, robotaxis, tesla, tesla fsd (full self driving), tesla robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:47:49 +0000

It’s a longstanding and vigorous debate — will robotaxis need lidar, or are cameras alone adequate? Of course, we have several companies now operating robotaxis in China, the US, and elsewhere. Those all use lidar. However, Elon Musk has said for about a decade that robotaxis shouldn’t need lidar, and … [continued]

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How Much Are Robotaxi Utopia Promises Simply Myths?

January 12, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Lyft, robotaxis, san francisco, tesla, Uber, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:45:47 +0000

Much of the discussion around robotaxis these days is focused on how well they work and how quickly they can scale up and reproduce. However, some of the initial premises on why robotaxis could be good and helpful have probably not gotten enough attention. Bloomberg recently interviewed former director of … [continued]

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55% of Americans Would Ride in a Tesla Robotaxi

January 11, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Lyft, ridehailing, ridesharing, robotaxis, tesla, tesla robotaxis, Uber

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:34:45 +0000

I just wrote about interesting new research finding that 25% of Americans are completely avoiding Tesla products because of Elon Musk. It’s a big deal, whether many Tesla fans want to acknowledge it or not. In theory, that’s 1.5 million sales rather than 2 million. But that’s not what most … [continued]

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Pony.ai To Launch Robotaxis in Hong Kong

January 9, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, China, clean transport, Electric vehicles, pony.ai, robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:45:29 +0000

Pony.ai Robotaxis Gallop to Hong Kong Pony.ai currently has 250+ robotaxis in operation in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen (without safety drivers). It’s now looking to expand into Hong Kong, following somewhat more mature rival Baidu there. In particular, Pony.ai will be operating robotaxis at the Hong Kong International Airport as … [continued]

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Survey Shows Significant Differences in EV Life & Interests in China, Germany, & USA

January 9, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, China, clean transport, consumer technology, deloitte, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev surveys, GERMANY, market research, research, smartphone apps, US

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 20:40:10 +0000

Looking through Deloitte’s 2025 Global Automotive Consumer Study more closely today, some things jumped out at me on differences between the Chinese, German, and US EV markets. We already covered the obvious one from China being a more mature EV market — many more people plan to buy a BEV … [continued]

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Waymo Robotaxis Safer Than Any Human-Driven Cars — MUCH Safer

January 5, 2025 admin adas, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, research, robotaxis, swiss re, waymo, waymo driver

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:26:14 +0000

Swiss Re, a top reinsurer globally, has analyzed a lot of data, and it has determined that Waymo’s robotaxis are safer than human drivers, and even safer than human drivers of new cars with the latest advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Swiss Re has more than 500,000 liability claims and … [continued]

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Tesla Realism vs. Illogical Hate

January 3, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, investment, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 04:57:17 +0000

Several times in the past year, I’ve pointed out concerns with Tesla consumer demand and sales. That’s not to say Tesla isn’t an excellent company that produces superb electric cars and sells very large volumes of them. The height Tesla has risen to is amazing. I said for more than … [continued]

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Electric & Autonomous Trucks Won’t Fix This, But YOU Can!

January 2, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:43:35 +0000

With all of the crazy new year’s news (electric truck terrorism is a thing now apparently), a news story from just a couple of weeks ago feels like ancient news. It’s almost like that Pecos, Texas train derailment happened last year or something! (oh, wait…) Some online commenters were saying … [continued]

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Is Safety A Much Bigger Issue For Robotaxis Than We Assume?

December 28, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Safety

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:47:43 +0000

The “robotaxi revolution” has been hyped for about a decade. Many see it as never coming. Many see it as just around the next corner. The fact of the matter is: robotaxis are already in operation. However, that’s still at a rather small scale. The “revolution” part would be when … [continued]

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US Government Takes Step Forward With Self-Driving Vehicle Rules — Will They Last?

December 25, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Joe Biden, national highway traffic safety administration (nhtsa), nhtsa, policy & politics, robotaxis, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:20:01 +0000

New regulations and big regulatory changes take a long time to develop and roll out in the US government. They need to be super carefully developed and every single punctuation mark needs to be examined by the lawyers to make sure the regulations will hold up if challenged in the … [continued]

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