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Tesla: Close to Fully Autonomous Car

Tesla founder Elon Musk said Thursday that the world’s recently crowned most valuable auto company could achieve a fully autonomous car by the end of 2020. Musk, who has made premature predictions about the advent of completely autonomous cars before, offered...

GIG Car Share Brings 250 Vehicles to Seattle

GIG Car Share is hitting the streets of Seattle. The new free-floating car-sharing service from AAA, which announced in February that it was expanding to the city, is officially available with 250 Toyota Priuses. The move represents a return to a...

Apple Pushing for On-time 5G iPhone Launch

Facing production delays of four to eight weeks relative to the output it would have maintained if not for the coronavirus pandemic, Nikkei Asian Review notes that Apple and its suppliers have been steadily chipping away at this production delay by working overtime....

Robots: Key to Reopening After the Pandemic

Imagine walking into a room wearing an N95 mask, unsure whether the cleaning crew has thoroughly cleaned the next piece of sensitive equipment that you are planning to use. Suddenly, you notice a robot in the room. This robot is moving around you to disinfect the...

Does Driver-free Mean Virus-free?

The latest challenge for the autonomous vehicle industry: How to assure passengers that the car they are getting in is virus free, even if it doesn’t have a driver. Widespread use of autonomous vehicles already had been delayed by a March 2018 fatal crash...