Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:35:27 +0000
Tesla has acquired DeepScale, an artificial intelligence company that focuses on computers for self-driving cars. The terms of the deal have not been announced.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:30:32 +0000
A petition on Change.org demands that Congress change US law to give consumers greater control over vehicle data. While the petition is run by an industry group with an interest in the outcome of this debate, it does raise important points about consumer rights and future repair costs. However, there needs to be more discussion of the privacy implications of vehicle data
Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 05:00:14 +0000
After being fed the second news story since Smart Summon came out citing how unsafe Smart Summon is, I wanted to point out something
Credit to Author: Matt Pressman| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:00:49 +0000
As self-driving cars move closer and closer to reality, one particular market stands to benefit — autonomous taxis (aka robotaxis). Tasha Keeny from Ark Invest recently evaluated the players who’d likely benefit from this massive market opportunity. Keeney writes, “Autonomous vehicles will transform personal mobility … reap[ing] the benefits of a new market which promises to ramp from essentially $0 now to $10 trillion in global gross annual revenues by 2030.”
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:40:42 +0000
Eli Burton got to show Alex from “E for Electric” just how cool Advanced Summon is in his Model S P100D. The video is 15 minutes long and Eli comes in at about 3 minutes into the video after Alex introduces him. [Editor’s note: This is a unique and interesting video, so I encourage you to check it out
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:03:18 +0000
How strong is the Model 3 glass roof? Tesla owner Bernie Daigle discovered the answer to this when he tried to avoid a collision with another car that, as you can see in the video below, pulled out in front of him. He managed to avoid the collision with the car, but his Model 3 wound up being put to the ultimate test
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:43:37 +0000
Friend & longtime Tesla employee* David Havasi and I play with Smart Summon in a difficult situation. More dramatically, I’ve got a collection of fun and dramatic Smart Summon videos from Twitter to show you
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:12:50 +0000
A Tesla owners meetup in Taiwan wound up making the local news. The day started with a fun yet cryptic tweet from the Tesla Owners Club of Taiwan
Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 06:12:32 +0000
A few days ago I told you what I thought was going on at the IAA 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, and that was quite an eye opener for me. One single model stole the show. The world of automobiles will see serious change next year, when the VW ID.3 and other similar models hit the tarmac with their wheels spinning so fast the fossil fuel slurping dinosaurs won’t know what hit them
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 04:17:29 +0000
As I’ve followed the reveal of Canoo this week, it’s something that’s coming out of left field for most of us. Like WALL-E when he found the spork, automotive journalists just aren’t sure which box Canoo fits into, if any. What nobody’s pointing out so far is that we’ve been here before, and vehicles like this could prove to disrupt industries far outside of the automotive world when combined with autonomous technology