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Cruise and Waymo Self-Driving Taxis Are Terrorising Transit Operators
In San Francisco, tech “disruption” is often framed as good. It’s the goal of “move fast, break things” start-ups and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: innovation, paradigm shifts, etc…. But, so far, it’s in the original sense of the word that self-driving taxi companies Cruise and Waymo are disrupting San Francisco’s streets.
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GM Invents Self-Cleaning Touchscreen Displays That Make Fingerprints Disappear
Like it or not, touchscreens that replace physical buttons in cars aren’t going away any time soon. In fact, one day your vehicle’s entire dashboard will probably be one big screen covered in weeks’ worth of greasy fingerprints. To make them less of an annoyance, instead of having to wipe them clean with some occasional…
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Porsche Is Reportedly Warming Up to the Idea of Google in its Cars
The German sports car maker has been ambivalent about Google’s desired level of data access, but that thinking seems to have shifted.
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How the Three Major Self-Driving Systems Stack Up
It seems every car maker is experimenting with advanced driver safety assistance systems — the long proper term for self-driving car features. Journalist Michael Wayland at CNBC took a ride around Detroit in the three big names in the space — General Motors, Ford and Tesla — to find out who is ahead of the…