More than a century after it started delivering telegrams by bike, UPS is going back to pedal power in its hometown.
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In true Musk fashion, Boring Company test tunnel opening pushed back a week
Long criticized for his time management skills, billionaire inventor Elon Musk is once again behind schedule on a major project.
This time it's the underground Hawthorne test tunnel for The Boring Company's high-speed transit system underneath Los An...
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Electric Scooters Are Better for Cities Than Cars
The vehicles made by Bird, Lime, and the like can slash emissions, reinvigorate mass transit, and address America’s dependency on cars.
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Waymo’s Self-Driving Launch, and More This Week in Cars
But the announcement came with serious caveats. Plus: Tesla's Autopilot, May Mobility, and scooters.
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Tencent-backed fleet manager G7 racks up $320M in funding
A sizable funding round is poised to heat up a race to automate China’s logistics infrastructure. Beijing-based fleet management company G7 announced on Monday that it has banked $320 million to drive technological development, bringing its total capital raised to around $500 million. G7, which runs a proprietary connected platform for trucks, shippers, fleet manager and […]
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TuSimple’s Robotruck Cameras See Twice as Far as Any Lidar
The self-driving startup's computer-vision-wielding truck drives like a champion—until a system freeze cuts a test-drive short.
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SoftBank invests in parking startup ParkJockey pushing valuation to $1 billion
SoftBank continues to invest in the future of transportation — this time in ParkJockey, a startup that has built a technology platform aimed at monetizing parking lots. And ParkJockey, which was founded in 2013, is already using that capital to scale up. Along with the SoftBank investment news, ParkJockey also announced that it was acquiring two […]
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Elon Musk Abuses Tesla Autopilot on *60 Minutes*
By ignoring his company's instructions, Musk risked making the public even more confused about how to safely use the semi-autonomous system.
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Daimler is buying nearly $23 billion of battery cells to power its electric vehicle offensive
Daimler plans to buy $23 billion worth of battery cells by 2030 as the maker of Mercedes-Benz vehicles and commercial trucks prepares to bring dozens of electric and hybrid vehicles to market. The German automaker didn’t disclose which companies would supply them with batteries. However, Daimler does have supply deals with LG Chem and SK […]
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Sidecar says Uber ‘took illegal steps to undermine’ competitors in new lawsuit
Sidecar, an early player in the ride-hailing business, is suing Uber, claiming the billion-dollar business “stifled competition in the market for ride-hailing applications,” according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. district court in San Francisco on Tuesday — first reported by Reuters. The company, co-founded by Sunil Paul in 2011, alleges Uber “used a number of tactics...
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Lyft is making it easier for people in food deserts to access groceries
Access to healthy food is particularly difficult in food deserts — areas where more than 40 percent of households don’t have access to a car, are located more than half a mile away from a grocery store and have a median income of less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level for a family […]
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Tesla is suing alleged ‘saboteur’ for $167 million
Tesla is now seeking $167 million in a lawsuit against Martin Tripp, the former Tesla employee who CEO Elon Musk has referred to as a saboteur, CNBC first reported. The lawsuit, originally filed in June and seeking just $1 million at the time, alleges Tripp stole confidential and trade secret information, and gave it to third […]
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Lift Aircraft’s Hexa may be your first multirotor drone ride
We were promised jetpacks, but let's be honest, they're just plain unsafe. So a nice drone ride is probably all we should reasonably expect. Lift Aircraft is the latest to make a play for the passenger multirotor market, theoretical as it is, and its craft is a sleek little thing with some interesting design choices to make it suitable for laypeople to "pilot."
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Here’s how Lyft envisions self-driving cars communicating with pedestrians
The question of how self-driving cars will interact and communicate with humans is one that has come up before, but the answer is still up in the air. Google has been looking into this at least since 2012, and earlier this year, Uber filed a patent for using flashing lights and sounds to talk to […]
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Report: Morgan Stanley lands coveted Uber IPO role
Uber has reportedly picked Morgan Stanley to lead its upcoming initial public offering, news of which became public last week when the ride-hailing giant filed confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO expected in the first quarter of 2019. Uber’s choice, first reported by Bloomberg, comes after a months-long bidding war, of sorts, between Morgan Stanley and...
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Burger King’s 1-Cent Whopper Is a Taste of the Robo-Car Future
With the spread of self-driving technology, gimmicks like the Whopper Detour will become much more pervasive—and a little bit creepy.
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Elon Musk’s plans for 2019 might include a Tesla pickup truck prototype
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has floated the idea for an all-electric pickup truck numerous times in the two years. Now, he’s back at it, this time with a teaser that Tesla might have a prototype to unveil in 2019. Musk mentioned on Twitter the desire to produce a pickup truck way back in April 2017, […]
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Facial recognition tech spreads to car rentals
Why take out your wallet and photo ID if a camera and software program can scan your face, verify your identity, and send you on your way in 30 seconds? That's what Hertz rental cars is asking with its new partnership with Clear, the biometric face and fingerprint scanning company you've seen at airport security checkpoints. SEE ALSO: Microsoft wants regulation to keep the 'facial recognition...
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How Self-Driving Cars Handle Tricky Highway Merges
For tech that can struggle to understand how humans drive, the communication-heavy, high-speed highway merge is no easy thing.
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Uber launches a bus service in Egypt
Uber, which is gearing up to go public early next year, is really doubling down on this whole multi-modal transportation provider effort. Earlier this month, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the launch of UberBus, a minibus service in Cario, Egypt. “I’m excited to be in Cairo to launch Uber Bus, a product that will improve affordable […]
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