Cars
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Self-Driving Cars Need to Be 99.99982% Crash-Free to Be Safer Than Humans
Human drivers are pretty good at avoiding crashes. To be safer than the average driver, an autonomous car needs to do way better.
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How to Build a (Nearly) Hollywood-Quality Camera Car for $5,000
For a very long time, the only way to get super smooth, dynamic car-to-car footage of a vehicle was to use what’s known as an arm car – or specifically what used to be called a Russian arm car but now is called the Ukrainian arm car because the company is based in Ukraine and…
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Why Latvia Donated Quads and Electric Scooters to the Ukraine War Effort
A soldier can only be so intimidating when standing on an electric scooter. In bulky brown coats and forest-green pants, a quartet of Latvian soldiers demonstrate the ease of their Mosphera scooters. The vehicles, made in Liepajā, Latvia, were part of an arms transfer from that country to Ukraine, part of the ongoing effort of…
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Mexico Has Conflicting Yet Interesting Ideas for Tesla’s Future
Elon Musk is headed to Mexico soon to speak with the president about Tesla building a production plant in the country. Rumours of Tesla’s big move south have been ongoing for months, but Musk hasn’t confirmed where, exactly, Tesla plans to build its latest Gigafactory — or whether it will be built in Mexico at…