Feb 3, 2022 | Featured, Recall, Safety
The recall is among the largest in the Austin, Texas, company’s history and covers all four models in its lineup. Tesla is recalling more than 817,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the seat belt reminder chimes may not sound when the vehicles are started and the driver...
Feb 3, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
In an announcement on February 1, 2022, Cruise revealed it is now accepting sign-ups from interested riders who’d like to take one of the company’s self-driving cars for a spin. Lucky participants will be given rides in driverless cars, which are equipped...
Feb 3, 2022 | Charging, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford Motor Co. is working with Israeli startup Electreon to construct a mile-long road near Detroit’s Michigan Central Terminal that will charge electric vehicles as they travel on it. The pilot program will deploy an inductive in-road charging system in partnership...
Feb 3, 2022 | Featured, Space
The International Space Station’s final nine years are going to be busy. NASA just released a report outlining the big-picture goals for the rest of the orbiting lab’s operational life, which is expected to end with a controlled deorbit in...
Feb 3, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Investment, Rideshare
Interest in self-driving vehicle technologies has grown during the pandemic, particularly as surges in infections make deliveries and taxi rides riskier. Markets and Markets optimistically predicts that autonomous car sales will reach 62.4 million units by...
Feb 3, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Unions
U.S. labor unions and a consumer safety advocate on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to add more safeguards to ensure autonomous vehicles are safe before being deployed in wide numbers on U.S. roads. Lawmakers at a U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure...
Jan 27, 2022 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles, Climate
A lack of knowledge is holding many farmers back from investing in new agricultural technology, according to a new survey by NFU Mutual. Lack of access to finance was the second highest reason limiting respondents (30%), followed by uncertainty about the future (17%)...
Jan 27, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg was met with a mixed reaction after touting his company’s “exciting breakthrough” towards creating an artificial intelligence system that thinks “the way we do.” In a Facebook post on Thursday,...
Jan 27, 2022 | Investment, Michigan, Mobility
May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle technology company based in Ann Arbor, has announced the initial closing of a Series C round of funding with an investment of $83 million led by Mirai Creation Fund II, a managed fund of Sparx Group Co. Other new investors are Tokio...
Jan 27, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured, Jobs
General Motors Co said on Wednesday it would hire more than 8,000 new technical staff this year, as the U.S. automaker accelerates its development of electric vehicles and software-driven services. The company said it is expanding teams that electrify cars, develop...
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