Enlarge / Hyperloop Transportation Technologies’ new passenger capsule. (credit: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies)
In August 2013, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a white paper detailing a “Hyperloop,” a super-fast passenger train that would overcome the usual friction by levitating
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America’s roads got slightly safer between 2016 and 2017, the federal government reported on Wednesday. In total, 37,133 people died in car crashes last year, compared with 37,806 who died the preceding year.
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Honda is investing $750 million in Cruise, the self-driving car startup whose majority shareholder is General Motors. The deal values Cruise at $14.6 billion. The deal is important
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Founded by two veterans of Apple’s still-secret driverless car project, Aeva is a startup promising a different kind of lidar—one that can measure the velocity of objects in addition to their distance.
We first covered the company
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On Tuesday morning, Tesla released its production and delivery results for Q3 2018. During those three months, the company built a total of 80,142 electric vehicles, of which 53,239 were the somewhat more affordable Model
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A lone engineer has succeeded in doing what Uber’s top lawyers and expert witnesses could not—overturning most of a foundational patent covering arch-rival Waymo’s lidar laser ranging devices.
Following a surprise left-field complaint by
Enlarge / Tesla’s stock plunged in after-hours trading on Thursday, then soared after Saturday’s settlement. (credit: Barchart.com)
Tesla’s stock is up by more than 16 percent in early Monday trading after Elon Musk signed a deal with the Securities
Enlarge / John Krafcik on November 7, 2017—the day Waymo began testing fully driverless cars with no one behind the wheel. (credit: Horacio Villalobos – Corbis/Getty Images)
Waymo, Google’s self-driving car project, is planning to launch a driverless taxi service
