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Uber & Waymo Expand Partnership to Bring Autonomous Ride-Hailing to Austin & Atlanta

September 18, 2024 admin ATLANTA, AUSTIN, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, Georgia, robotaxis, texas, Uber, waymo

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:20:29 +0000

Regular crashes, injuries, and even fatalities plague the traffic sector, highlighting the potential benefits of self-driving cars. When my daughters and I decided to take a Waymo to get to the museum across the city from us in San Francisco, we had no idea how safe we would or wouldn’t … [continued]

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More “See-Saw Effect” with Tesla FSD 12.5.3

August 26, 2024 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: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:40:54 +0000

I wrote the other day about Tesla “Full Self Driving” (FSD) reportedly getting much better with the 12.5 update. As I explained in that piece, I normally don’t go by what other people are saying on this because my history with doing that was massive disappointment and a tremendously different … [continued]

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Waymo Doubles Robotaxi Trips in 3 Months — Is Waymo Finally Scaling Exponentially?

August 24, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, California, clean transport, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, waymo, waymo one

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:01:49 +0000

If you thought Waymo was on a roll before, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The robotaxi company under the big Alphabet (formerly Google) umbrella has apparently doubled the number of paid robotaxi trips it is providing in just three months. Waymo announced yesterday that it is now providing more than … [continued]

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New Waymo Driver — Cheaper, Drives in More Weather

August 22, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, google, robotaxis, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:09:34 +0000

Waymo continues to trudge forward, and it is reporting notable improvements in its brand new 6th-generation Waymo Driver. The funny thing, as I’m writing this, is I still remember the first Google self-driving cars I saw and recorded with an old-school digital camera in 2006. That was 18 years ago! … [continued]

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Tesla FSD 12.5 Shows Massive Improvement, Testers Say

August 22, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), tesla insurance

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:46:00 +0000

Years ago, I got hyped up by early Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) testers giving the impression that FSD was nearly robotaxi capable. I got FSD, which I had bought years prior, activated about a year later and discovered it was actually horrible and much worse than the previous Autopilot … [continued]

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Free Electric Autonomous Shuttle Service Launches In Detroit

August 21, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, detroit, Electric vehicles, ford, ford e-transit, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:35:17 +0000

A free, autonomous, fully electric shuttle service launched on August 13th in Detroit. The State of Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification, the City of Detroit, Bedrock, Michigan Central, and Perrone Robotics worked together to create the shuttle system, which utilizes Ford E-Transit vans. (Even though online there is … [continued]

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All-Electric (Vintage) Bronco from Kindred, Polestar 3 Production in USA — EV News Roundup

August 18, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, bronco, China, clean power, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric aviation, ev batteries, ev conversions, evgo, ford bronco, India, london, polestar, polestar 3, Shanghai, turkiye, uk, zeekr

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:56:14 +0000

Polestar 3, a luxury SUV from the well known EV brand, is now being manufactured in South Carolina. This is Polestar’s first offering made in the United States. Elsewhere, Kindred Motorworks presents the zero-emissions vintage Bronco. With modern all-electric torque and efficiency use of energy, one can enjoy that vintage … [continued]

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Tesla’s New 3-Year Bundle Including FSD With Model S & X Is For Just $5000 … Interesting

August 16, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), tesla model s, tesla model x, tesla robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:04:03 +0000

When I saw the new $5,000 option for a 3-year bundle of Full Self Driving (FSD), Free Supercharging, and Premium Connectivity for Tesla Model S and Model X buyers, my first thought was just that Tesla was swapping around the bonuses again in order to stimulate more demand. But it … [continued]

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Mercedes To Begin Level 4 Autonomous Driving Tests In China

August 14, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, Beijing, China, clean transport, Electric vehicles, mercedes, research, robotaxis, weride

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:45:57 +0000

Mercedes has been given permission by Chinese authorities to begin testing is autonomous cars on the streets of Beijing.

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The Self-Driving Startup Everyone Forgot About: “We’ve actually dramatically accelerated our autonomy progress.”

August 14, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, nuro, Uber, uber eats

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 02:43:51 +0000

Waymo, Cruise, Tesla, Baidu, Zoox — there are a handful of companies that get quite a big bulk of the attention when it comes to self-driving vehicle development. However, there’s another company that has been progressing nicely and often goes under the radar (no pun intended). That would be Nuro. … [continued]

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