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Two self-driving startups team up to build a different kind of lidar
Enlarge / Four Blackmore lidar units sit atop a demo vehicle in Washington DC. (credit: Timothy B. Lee)
Fresh from a $530 million fundraising round earlier this year, self-driving startup Aurora made a big bet on lidar last week. The
Kelly’s Heroes: Lockheed’s five finest airplanes
Update: It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the US, and the Ars staff has a long weekend accordingly. As we all reflect on the sacrifice of the people bravely serving in the Armed Forces, we thought resurfacing this piece—an
The Boring Company appears to have its first paying customer
Enlarge / A view of the exit of The Boring Company’s test tunnel in Hawthorne. (credit: The Boring Company)
On Wednesday, the board of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) voted to grant The Boring Company—Elon Musk’s private
Seattle makes history with electric garbage truck
Enlarge / This is Recology’s new BYD 8R, the first electric rear-loading class 8 garbage truck in the US. (credit: BYD)
If you live in Seattle, your scheduled garbage pickup might be about to get a lot quieter. Recology, a
Consumer Reports: Latest Autopilot “far less competent than a human”
Enlarge / A Tesla Model 3. (credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
In recent weeks, Tesla has been pushing out a new version of Autopilot with automatic lane-change capabilities to Model 3s—including one owned by Consumer Reports. So the group dispatched several
General Motors designs a new “brain and nervous system” for its vehicles
Enlarge / An illustration of the new Cadillac CT5 with the electrical systems highlighted in teal. (credit: General Motors)
A common criticism of the increasingly digital nature of new cars and trucks is that all these new features are being
Thanks Autopilot: Cops stop Tesla whose driver appears asleep and drunk
Enlarge (credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
Police in the Netherlands on Thursday arrested a Tesla driver who had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel while driving down the highway. A Dutch police agency reported the arrest on Instagram.
A 50-year-old
The 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback, reviewed
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The 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ]
I’ll admit to being a little trepidatious reviewing the Toyota Corolla Hatchback. I didn’t exactly gel with the new Camry, and the two cars share the same underpinnings. Not that