Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:02:19 +0000
Waymo has been on a roll this year. Without a doubt, in my humble opinion, this has been the company’s best year. I don’t just mean that every year is better than the last, and so this is its best year. I mean that the company seems to have leapt … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:45:23 +0000
December has been absolutely packed with big cleantech stories. The solar power and electric vehicle markets keep growing fast, evolving, and even surprising. To be honest, when I write these weekly and bi-weekly news highlights, there are ends up being far more big and noteworthy news than I expect. It … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:13:03 +0000
Autonomous vehicles are still a dream, although Elon Musk swears Tesla will crack the AV code sooner than later. Last week, Cruise, the autonomous ride hailing service owned by General Motors, went out of existence after the the parent company invested more than $10 billion into the self driving startup. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 04:53:45 +0000
How robotaxis interact with first responders and how first responders are expected to handle robotaxis that have been in an accident are important matters, and Waymo has taken these matters seriously. As evidence of that, Waymo has partnered with TÜV SÜD for an independent, third-party evaluation of Waymo’s practices. The … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:59:10 +0000
When it comes to developing driver assist systems, autonomous vehicles, or even aiming for self-driving cars, it’s never easy. Even corporate behemoths like GM have been struggling to stay in the game when the challenges got to be too much and incidents on the road led to a loss of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 04:57:31 +0000
After writing about WeRide’s robotaxi deployment in Abu Dhabi, I went looking at recent WeRide announcements, and I noticed one especially interesting ones I had missed. Just a couple weeks ago, autonomous robotaxis from WeRide, the Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1, were commercially deployed in Singapore, at Marina Coastal Drive … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 04:24:36 +0000
Having gone to Abu Dhabi several times for cleantech conferences, I could see that UAE leaders were very keen on futuristic tech and very keen on superlatives — the biggest, the first, the tallest, the fastest, etc. So, I knew it would be quick to deploy robotaxis. Today, the capital … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:01:59 +0000
AI enabled robots are everywhere, from self driving cars from Waymo to machines that install solar panels quickly and cheaply.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:57:24 +0000
I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time! I recall the first time I saw Google self-driving vehicles on the streets of Palo Alto — in 2012! You can view some really old, bad video footage of the car here and here. Of course, Waymo wasn’t a thing … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:59:55 +0000
In recent posts to his social media site, Elon Musk took aim at a tough target: the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II. Not only is it stealthy (something Musk claims to have a workaround for), but he also thinks it’s a monetary boondoggle that his unofficial “government agency” should try to get … [continued]
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