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Dyson kills its plan to challenge Tesla with an electric car
Enlarge / James Dyson, founder and chairman of Dyson Ltd., speaks during the launch of the Airwrap product during the company’s beauty technology launch event in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. (credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
How self-driving shuttles could enable car-free living in the suburbs
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RESTON, VIRGINIA—A Boston-based startup called Optimus Ride has launched a new self-driving vehicle service in the Washington, DC suburb of Reston, Virginia. On Monday, I traveled to the site, a 45-minute drive
The 2021 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car has more luxury, less ugly
Enlarge / Toyota wouldn’t let us take photos of the Mirai, but it shared these images. (credit: Toyota)
When Toyota announced the original Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle in 2015—”Mirai” meaning “future” in Japanese—the company was already
Waymo tells riders to get ready for fully driverless rides
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Waymo will begin offering fully driverless rides to ordinary people in the Phoenix area, the company revealed in a Wednesday email to participants of its Early Rider Program. The email was obtained by Techcrunch
Pedestrian detection systems don’t work very well, AAA finds
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Not only is the problem of cars killing pedestrians not going away, the annual death toll over the last decade has actually increased by 35%. The proliferation of cars with automatic
SUV smackdown: Comparing a Nissan Rogue, Jeep Cherokee, and Mazda CX-5
Enlarge / The 2020 Ars FrankenSUV won’t be coming to a dealership near you. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Eric Bangeman / Marlowe Bangeman)
If you live in the suburbs of an American city, you can barely cross the street without