The Innovation Report
Electric Vehicles Face Reality Check As Automakers Dial Back Production Targets
The tentative deals that brought an end to the 6-week strike by the United Auto Workers could bring collective bargaining power to workers at new electric battery plants jointly owned by the automakers. But the deals could also make electric vehicles even...
UAW Strikes Tentative Ford Deal; All Eyes On GM And Stellantis
After more than six weeks of walkouts, picketing, and fractured negotiations, the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Ford Motor Company have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract. The deal, announced yesterday (Oct. 25) includes a roughly 25% pay...
Google Maps’ AI-Powered Features Rolling Out This Week
Google Maps is getting new immersive features in the coming days and months, fusing assets found via Street View and satellite imagery to make navigation more intuitive, Google said in a blog post Thursday. Highlighting the blog post is Immersive View for Routes,...
SpaceX Counters FAA Claims That Reentering Starlink Satellites Could Hurt Or Kill People
SpaceX has asked the u.s. federal aviation administration (faa) to correct a report warning that components from reentering starlink constellation satellites could injure or even kill people on the ground. The FAA, a regulatory body that licenses the launch...
UAE Welcomes Chinese Flying Robot Food Delivery Firm
A Chinese flying robot drone food delivery business is heading to the UAE. The Ministry of Economy has announced that Meituan UAS, a China-based drone-facilitated food delivery business, will be the latest pioneering global tech company to join its NextGen...
Union Has 4-Word Response After Suspension Of Some Driverless Cars In CA
A local Teamsters union in California said the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) responded "too little, too late" in deciding to suspend permits for some driverless vehicles. The California DMV announced the "immediate" suspension of General Motors'...
California Halts Cruise’s Self-Driving Cars Citing ‘Risk To Public Safety’
California’s DMV is suspending Cruise’s permit to test self-driving cars in the state over concerns the vehicles pose a risk to public safety. The suspension occurs three weeks after a Cruise self-driving vehicle accidentally rolled over a pedestrian in San...
AI-Powered 6G Networks Will Reshape Digital Interactions
Sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks, underpinned by artificial intelligence (AI), are poised to combine communication and computing in a hyperconnected world of digital and physical experiences that will transform daily lives, experts predict. “In the past, we...
Ford Testing Drone Deliveries At Michigan Central
Detroit’s Michigan Central Station, the once beautiful but now abandoned train station that Ford is rehabilitating into an innovation and technology hub, is about to be swarmed by drones. The Ford subsidiary that operates the train station, Michigan Central,...
Study: Robot Coworkers May Make Us Lazier
It’s not uncommon for people to take their foot off the pedal at work if they know others will cover for them. And it turns out, the same might be true when people think robots have got their backs. While robots have been a fixture in the workplace for decades,...
