autonomous vehicles
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Reports Of Tesla Smart Summon Crashes Are Now Under Investigation
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) isn’t so thrilled with Tesla’s rollout of a feature that automatically summons the company’s vehicles in parking lots, telling Reuters they are investigating resulting crashes.
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Reports: Uber Freezes Tech Staff Hiring As Cash Hemorrhage Continues
Ridesharing giant Uber, which has been burning through money faster than the Joker ($US5.2 ($8) billion in the last quarter alone!), has suddenly frozen its hiring of technical and engineering staff in the U.S., according to reports on Saturday by Bloomberg and Yahoo News.
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Boeing Announces Work With Flying Taxi Startup Kitty Hawk, But Don’t Call It A Flying Car
Boeing has announced that it’s working with the flying taxi startup Kitty Hawk, to “collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility.” The announcement of the so-called strategic partnership is pretty light on details, but it’s an optimistic signal for people who’ve been waiting on futuristic, consumer-facing aviation technologies.
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Elon Musk Was Right: Cheap Cameras Could Replace LIDAR On Self-Driving Cars, Researchers Find
Among the many tidbits of wisdom that Elon Musk dropped at a Tesla company investor event early this week was the revelation that LIDAR, a laser-based scanning technology that images objects in 3D, was “friggin’ stupid”, and that “…anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed”. It seemed a grandiose claim given how many autonomous car initiatives…